Patient safety risks go undetected until it's too late
The CDC and AHRQ estimate 700,000 to 1 million patients fall in U.S. hospitals every year, and roughly a quarter of those falls cause injury. A single overnight nurse covering 8-10 beds can't watch every room and chart vitals at the same time. Falls, wandering dementia patients, and post-sedation confusion all happen in the gaps between rounds - the exact gaps a camera already covers but nobody's watching live.