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We design and install security, communications, and audio/video solutions and the network cabling infrastructure needed by healthcare organizations across Pennsylvania.

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Security Solutions for the Healthcare Industry

Patient and staff security are of utmost concern for healthcare facilities of all sizes, from small clinics and urgent care centers to large hospitals, senior care, and rehab facilities. It's with good reason – the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows healthcare workers are 4-5 times more likely to experience violence in the workplace than workers in other industries, and multiple surveys suggest workplace violence is on the rise. This threat to worker safety negatively impacts patient care, morale, recruitment, and profitability. How can healthcare organizations protect people and property? The solution is integrated surveillance and access control systems designed specifically for their facilities.

Framed Image: Surveillance camera trained down a hallway in a hospital. Various doctors, nurses, and a patient or two are occupying the hallway.

Integrated Surveillance & Access Control Systems

Healthcare providers must balance protecting patients, staff, medications, and sensitive health information with maintaining an open, welcoming atmosphere for care. A comprehensive and unified security system provides healthcare organizations with real-time situational awareness, rapid-response capability, and efficient incident investigation. In addition to security parking lots/garages, entrances & exits, stairwells, and hallways, healthcare facilities need to secure:

Pharmacies and Controlled Substance Areas

Pharmacies & Controlled Substance Areas

Labs, Scanning and Testing Areas

Labs, Scanning and Testing Areas

ICUs and Other High-Risk Patient Areas

ICUs and Other High-Risk Patient Areas

Maternity Wards and Nurseries

Maternity Wards and Nurseries

Data Closets and Patient Record Areas

Data Closets & Patient
Record Areas

Janitorial Storage and Medical Waste Areas

Janitorial Storage and
Medical Waste Areas

Ambulance Bays and the Emergency Room

Ambulance Bays and the
Emergency Room

Data Closets and Patient Record Areas

Data Closets & Patient
Record Areas

Janitorial Storage and Medical Waste Areas

Janitorial Storage and
Medical Waste Areas

Ambulance Bays and the Emergency Room

Ambulance Bays and the
Emergency Room

Linking surveillance cameras with access control systems like badge readers, biometric scanners, and other keyless options create a proactive security system that is robust, yet convenient to manage. Add an additional layer of safety and efficiency with our array of intelligent security solutions.

Leverage the Power of AI to Protect Patients and Property

Healthcare providers are increasingly leveraging advanced technology and video surveillance systems as part of their physical security strategy. Intelligent devices understand scenes and behavior to provide staff with actionable data, alerts, and responses that can save lives. Top uses of AI-powered security include:

Facial Recognition

Ensures only authorized personnel access sensitive areas, identifies unwanted individuals, and provides valuable evidence after an incident.

Visible Weapon Detection

Works alongside metal detectors to spot brandished weapons quickly – critical in reducing the risk of gun-related violence in healthcare settings.

Loitering Detection

Flags individuals lingering too long, whether they need assistance, are visiting, or may pose a threat. AI can trigger lighting, sounds, or staff notifications.

Fall Prevention

Alerts nursing staff when patients get out of bed or remain out longer than expected – supporting fast response to falls, which are one of the most common causes of injury in hospitals, rehab centers, and senior living.

Acoustic Monitoring/Alerts

Detects shouting, aggression, breaking objects, and other audio cues that may indicate a threat, enabling quicker intervention.

Image from the perspective of a surveillance camera; people are walking down a hallway in a healthcare facility and are highlighted via AI-powered software.
Fall Prevention

Alerts nursing staff when patients get out of bed or remain out longer than expected – supporting fast response to falls, which are one of the most common causes of injury in hospitals, rehab centers, and senior living.

Image from the perspective of a surveillance camera; people are walking down a hallway in a healthcare facility and are highlighted via AI-powered software.
Acoustic Monitoring/Alerts

Detects shouting, aggression, breaking objects, and other audio cues that may indicate a threat, enabling quicker intervention.

Healthcare-Focused Collaboration
& Communication Solutions

Leverage our advanced contact center cloud-based communications technology to provide superior patient care and staff coordination. When integrated with common EHR solutions, like Epic, OracleHealth (Cerner), and Meditech, you can assist patients the way they prefer to communicate – via phone, text, email, or recorded voice messages, while maintaining HIPAA compliance. This is a fully mobile and HIPAA-compliant email, calendar, and contacts platform for physicians and staff, ensuring they can connect with patients and colleagues anytime, anywhere. In fact, your administrative, billing, and support teams who work remotely have access to all necessary communication tools & patient info as easily as if they were on-site.

A doctor is on a telehealth visit with a patient. The viewer is seeing this from the doctor's side, with the patient on the computer screen

We understand the complexities of healthcare industry communications, and provide solutions that enable you to:

Answer and prioritize inbound calls, routing them to the correct personnel

Provide patients with remote care via HIPAA-compliant video visits

Securely email and share files while maintaining patient confidentiality

Automatically notify patients with reminders and other helpful information

Safely and securely support remote workers

Provide Better Care While Reducing Operational Costs

Our unified communication solutions help your staff to be more efficient and effective in providing excellent patient care. From your front-desk to your back-office operations, our advanced, integrated solutions simplify how teams work and interact with patients. This means lower overhead, more productive use of resources, and cost savings for your organization. Reduce reliance on outdated legacy systems and replace multiple communication vendors with a single, cloud-based system from Empire that reduces licensing costs & streamlines IT management. We design a solution that is flexible and scalable to meet your evolving needs.

Illustration of a team of doctors/nurses gathered around a table. Two of the four doctors have computers in front of them. There's a fifth doctor who has joined remotely via a screen on the wall behind the rest of the healthcare professionals.

Transform Healthcare Spaces with
Advanced Audio Video Solutions

Enhance visitor and patient journeys from check-in to discharge with digital displays, interactive kiosks, and wayfinding solutions. We provide professional AV solutions designed specifically for healthcare environments with user-friendly content management systems. From hospitals and clinics to urgent care centers and rehabilitation facilities, our audio video technology improves communication, patient engagement, and operational efficiency – helping healthcare teams deliver a better patient experience.

Front and center is a large digital screen displaying real-time information with patient stats

Clear, real-time information reduces confusion and assists with both day-to-day operations and emergency communications.

AV: A video screen is on the wall in the background, with a couple of interactive kiosks present in the foreground of a smaller clinic waiting area

Engaging content such as educational videos, wellness tips, and calming visuals can help alleviate patient anxiety and frustration with long wait times.

AV: Digital signage in a busy hospital lobby. There's a digital sign on the left in the foreground sharing information about flu shots.

Digital signage solutions reduce the need for printed materials, supporting contactless information sharing and costly reprints.

Promote your brand with stunning visuals showcasing your talented providers, commitment to best practices, and variety of patient services.

Do you provide telehealth services? Have multiple facilities? High-resolution displays, video conferencing systems, and collaborative screens support telehealth consultations, remote diagnostics, and virtual patient care. Clinicians can review medical scans, lab results, and patient records on large, clear displays, improving accuracy and efficiency. Advanced audio and video technology ensures seamless communication between patients and healthcare providers, even across remote locations. When paired with our HIPAA-compliant unified communications solution, your organization can operate more efficiently while providing top-quality patient care for optimal outcomes. Teams can collaborate in real time, annotate medical images, conduct training sessions, and manage operations more effectively. This enhances decision-making, reduces errors, and ensures staff remain coordinated across departments.

Framed Image: A team of doctors and medical staff are gathered at a conference table with a video screen in the background - more medical professionals are joining the meeting remotely through this screen.
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Support Your Critical Systems with a Powerful, Secure Network

Patients, providers, and administrators need a modern, personalized healthcare experience powered by a network built to support today's technology, and tomorrow's. Our RCDD-certified experts build secure, seamless, and scalable high-performing connectivity for patients, providers, and devices.

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Why do Pennsylvania healthcare organizations rely on us to design and
install their cabling network infrastructure?

Edge-to-cloud secure networks

We provide edge-to-cloud secure networks that enable healthcare organizations to fully utilize IoT, biomedical devices, and other emerging technologies with Zero Trust confidence, protecting patient, provider, and administrator data.

Unified structure design

We can design unified infrastructure to provide hospitals, clinics, doctor's offices, mobile pop-up sites, and telemedicine services with modern converged management of wireless, wired, and WAN networks onto a single cloud-native platform.

Future-proof your system

We future-proof your system to support smart building capabilities, an increasing number of connected devices, and the use of AI/Big Data, ensuring you have power, speed, and capacity for secure data transfer and storage.

ANSI/TIA-1179-B compliant

We deliver ANSI/TIA-1179-B compliant structured cabling systems to support a wide range of clinical and non-clinical systems for healthcare facility renovations and new construction.

Empire is a certified WBENC.

We are a certified woman-owned business, meaning we're a partner who not only brings deep technical expertise and RCDD-certified design & installation capabilities, but also helps our customers meet their supplier diversity objectives.

Edge-to-cloud secure networks

We provide edge-to-cloud secure networks that enable healthcare organizations to fully utilize IoT, biomedical devices, and other emerging technologies with Zero Trust confidence, protecting patient, provider, and administrator data.

Unified structure design

We can design unified infrastructure to provide hospitals, clinics, doctor's offices, mobile pop-up sites, and telemedicine services with modern converged management of wireless, wired, and WAN networks onto a single cloud-native platform.

Future-proof your system

We future-proof your system to support smart building capabilities, an increasing number of connected devices, and the use of AI/Big Data, ensuring you have power, speed, and capacity for secure data transfer and storage.

ANSI/TIA-1179-B compliant

We deliver ANSI/TIA-1179-B compliant structured cabling systems to support a wide range of clinical and non-clinical systems for healthcare facility renovations and new construction.

Empire is a certified WBENC.

We are a certified woman-owned business, meaning we're a partner who not only brings deep technical expertise and RCDD-certified design & installation capabilities, but also helps our customers meet their supplier diversity objectives.

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