Dealing with problem number one--budget cuts: can you do more with less?

To cope with current budget restraints and cutbacks, hospital security departments are increasingly integrating their manpower with technology in the form of access control, CCTV cameras, and alarm systems to supplement their services as well as becoming more dependent on computerized information technology systems and IT departments to track hospital activities and incidents. Security directors contacted for this report also emphasize that they are doing more with less by providing value-added services both to expand activities and to demonstrate the importance of their departments to top management.