Hospitals

The challenge

Hospitals are complex, continuously operating environments where security teams must protect patients, clinicians, visitors, pharmaceuticals, facilities, parking areas, emergency departments, behavioral-health spaces, and other sensitive locations. Video surveillance is increasingly part of the broader workplace-violence and safety strategy, particularly in emergency departments and other high-risk areas where incidents may develop quickly and require detailed review afterward.

How MARCIA™ helps

The challenge is that better surveillance produces more data. Higher-resolution cameras, expanded coverage, longer recording periods, and continuous operation can make disk-only storage expensive at scale. MARCIA™ allows hospitals to maintain an active Tier-1 disk layer while preserving long-term video economically on LTO, reducing the financial pressure to shorten retention or lower recording quality simply to control storage costs.

Better video, better outcomes

That creates the opportunity for better outcomes from the surveillance investment. Clearer, longer-retained video can strengthen workplace-violence investigations, patient and visitor incident review, parking-lot investigations, theft and diversion cases, employee safety reviews, liability defense, and collaboration with law enforcement. Preserving more visual history can also increase the future usefulness of analytics and AI systems as those capabilities evolve.

No new workflow for operators

MARCIA works behind the hospital’s existing video management environment. Operators continue using their familiar VMS timeline to locate historical footage while MARCIA manages the long-term storage lifecycle. The result is an architecture designed to preserve Trusted Visual Evidence while helping healthcare organizations balance security, operational requirements, retention, and cost.