MedCity News March 11, 2025
Some healthcare providers have partnered with AI gun detection company ZeroEyes. The company adds its software to hospitals’ existing security camera systems to identify a gun before the shooter strikes.
Three incidents of gun violence at hospitals have made headlines in the past two weeks.
On February 24, a shooting at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York, Pennsylvania left two people dead and five people wounded. A week later, a gunman shot a security guard at an HonorHealth hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona — and a week after that, a patient at a Catholic Health hospital in Buffalo, New York sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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