Healthcare safety - SOS Technologies™

Emergency Response Built for Hospitals and Healthcare

Hospital workplace violence impacts staff productivity, recruitment/retention, and quality of patient care. The highest number of hospital assaults occurred in psychiatric units, emergency departments, rehab, and pediatrics. The majority of assailants are male patients, with family members, co-workers, visitors, and intruders also perpetrating violence. The exception to this is pediatric and rehab units, where females are more likely than males to perpetrate violence.

Addressing hospital security challenges requires a multi-disciplinary, multi-pronged approach that includes strategies, tactics, resources, and new technologies. SOS is dedicated to creating a safer hospital workplace by providing technology solutions that help hospitals both prevent and better respond to workplace violence.

Why Healthcare Environments Need a Faster Alerting System

In a serious emergency, the first few seconds shape the entire response.

Traditional emergency workflows often depend on someone identifying the threat, calling 911, explaining the situation, confirming the location, and waiting for information to move through multiple steps before responders are fully informed. That process can create a 14 to 17 minute gap between the first sign of danger and a coordinated response.

SOS Technologies is designed to reduce that gap to seconds.

With direct emergency activation, real-time location awareness, and integration into public safety workflows, SOS helps Hospitals move from uncertainty to action quickly.

Designed for Healthcare Environments

Hospitals are high-pressure, public environments where workplace violence against nurses and clinicians continues to rise. SOS LIVE 2.0 helps healthcare organizations protect nurses, clinicians, security, and patients by moving from alert to action in seconds with real-time visibility, location awareness, and coordinated internal response..

SOS is built to support those environments with flexible deployment options, including:

Medical worker and staff wearable alert buttons
Wall-mounted emergency buttons in strategic locations
Campus-wide strobes and sirens for visual and audible alerts
Live gateway connectivity with redundant network paths
Indoor location awareness to help identify where an alert was activated
Cloud-based command visibility for school leadership and safety teams
Integration options with public safety, video, access control, and communication systems

The result is a safety platform that can grow with a healthcare network, whether it serves one building or dozens.

From Alert to Action in Seconds

When an SOS alert is activated, the platform can immediately send critical information to the appropriate emergency response path. This may include the location, the type of alert, the device that was activated, and precise location details inside the building.

That information helps reduce confusion and gives responders a clearer picture before they arrive.

For hospital safety, the benefit is simple: faster notification, better information, and a more coordinated response.

Built on Proven Public Safety Experience

SOS Technologies is currently supporting large-scale emergency response modernization in New York City schools. The platform was selected after an extensive procurement and evaluation process and is designed to support direct integration with public safety systems.

That experience matters for charter schools.

It means SOS is not a basic panic button system. It is a public safety platform built for real operational environments, complex school facilities, and the urgency of emergency response.

More Than a Panic Button

A panic button is only useful if it leads to action.

SOS combines emergency activation, resilient connectivity, location intelligence, device monitoring, and response coordination into one platform. Security teams can know that devices are online, batteries are monitored, alerts are routed properly, and responders receive better information when an incident occurs.

This helps hospitals move beyond compliance and toward a more complete safety strategy.

A Smarter Safety Standard for Hospitals

Nurses and clinicians often face aggression alone — at the bedside, in the emergency department, and in behavioral health units. SOS LIVE 2.0 helps care teams improve staff safety with discreet alerting, precise location data, AI-assisted situational awareness, and coordinated workflows that notify security and clinical leadership first, with the ability to involve emergency responders when the situation requires it.

Schedule a Hospital Safety Review

Learn how SOS Technologies can help your hospital or healthcare workplace improve emergency response, strengthen nurse and clinician safety, and create a faster connection between staff and first responders.