‘Like Another Layer of PPE’: Wearable Safety Technology is the Way of the Future

Shan Sinha, Canopy CEO, sat down with Audrie Martin of Home Health Care News last month to discuss workplace violence and the importance of protecting healthcare workers in every setting. 

Canopy has safeguarded health system leaders in hospital settings since 2019 with Canopy Protect. This summer, it launched Canopy Go, which is geared toward direct care workers visiting clients or working in patients’ homes. The new solution was born of customers’ needs. 

“We’ve learned that there is a huge amount of anxiety when caregivers go outside the four walls of an organization,” Sinha said. “People feel disconnected when entering environments where they have little to no control and are out of their organization’s security range.”

Canopy Go is a set of capabilities built on top of the Canopy Protect platform and deployed at a scale that gives home care workers a way to use a wearable button to gain access to support if they encounter a dangerous situation. 

“Wearable safety is almost like another level of personal protective equipment (PPE),” Sinha said. “Every health care worker will wear something like this in the future. Individuals will show up to work with much less anxiety that they might encounter an incident, and by reducing this stress, they can focus on caring for their patient.”

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