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Employee Spotlight: Jenny Atterberg

Pointcore Marketing — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:44:33 GMT

How Jenny Atterberg is Shaping the Future of Clinical Technology

As Chief Nursing Information Officer at Pointcore, Jenny Atterberg sits at the intersection of clinical care, business strategy and information technology. Her mission is clear: technology should enhance the work of clinicians, but never dictate it.

With a career rooted in bedside care and shaped by a passion for innovation, Jenny brings credibility, compassion and deep personal commitment to her leadership role.

Turning Data into Direction

Pointcore Marketing — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:18:35 GMT

How Pointcore is Elevating Healthcare Decision-Making Through Data Intelligence

Healthcare organizations generate more data than ever before, including clinical data, operational metrics, workforce analytics, financial performance indicators and more. Yet for many leaders, the challenge isn’t access to data. It’s clarity.

Data often lives in disconnected systems, formatted differently across departments and updated on varying timelines. This forces leaders to spend valuable time reconciling reports instead of acting on insight.

That’s where Perception, Pointcore’s data intelligence solution, is transforming the equation.

From Data Overload to Actionable Intelligence

Formerly known as Business Operations Command Center, Perception was built to help healthcare leaders move past static reporting and toward real-time operational awareness.

Rather than simply aggregating data, Perception connects systems, standardizes information and presents meaningful insights in a way that supports timely decision-making. By aligning financial, clinical and operational data in one integrated environment, organizations gain visibility into performance drivers across the enterprise.

But Perception is more than a technology platform. It is a comprehensive solution supported by experienced healthcare professionals who understand the operational realities behind the data. Pointcore’s experts work alongside client teams to interpret insights and identify meaningful connections that drive stronger operations and patient care.

Breaking Down Silos

One of the most persistent challenges in healthcare is fragmentation between departments, facilities and systems. Perception addresses this by serving as a centralized intelligence layer that bridges disparate platforms and aligns teams around a shared source of truth.

When leaders are working from the same data foundation, conversations become more focused, decisions become more informed and accountability becomes clearer.

Instead of reacting to performance after the fact, departments can proactively manage trends as they emerge.

Perception in Action

Pointcore has already demonstrated measurable success in the data intelligence space. When partnering with OSF HealthCare, Perception delivered meaningful results during a period of rapid growth and complexity. As OSF expanded, leaders needed greater visibility across systems to manage performance effectively.

By leveraging Perception’s data intelligence capabilities, Pointcore helped OSF unify disparate data sources, improve enterprise-wide visibility and enable more informed decision-making. As a result of this engagement, OSF realized significant operational improvements, including:

Perception’s real-time intelligence and harmonized data are continually helping OSF improve performance in areas such as healthcare technology management, asset visibility, capital planning and change management, all while supporting better operational oversight at an enterprise scale.

Supporting Strategic Growth and Operational Resilience

As healthcare systems expand and complexity increases, leaders need tools that scale with them. Perception supports enterprise growth by delivering consistent, reliable intelligence across locations and service lines.

By enabling more precise forecasting, stronger performance monitoring and better cross-functional alignment, Perception helps organizations operate with greater confidence in an increasingly complex environment.

In today’s healthcare landscape, data alone is not enough. What matters is the ability to interpret, connect and act on that data with clarity. Perception helps healthcare organizations do exactly that.

Partner Spotlight: Basic ITS

Pointcore Marketing — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:42:33 GMT

The Shift from Reactive to Intelligent Physical Security

How AI is Redefining Physical Security

For much of the past two decades, physical security has evolved incrementally while the operating environment around it has transformed dramatically. Despite advances in camera resolution and network connectivity since the early 2000s, physical security has remained fundamentally reactive and siloed — until modern AI analytics enabled real-time intelligence and proactive response.

This gap between technological capability and operational need has become increasingly difficult to ignore. Today’s organizations require security systems that do more than capture evidence; they must actively contribute to risk reduction, operational awareness and business continuity.

Artificial Intelligence has emerged as the inflection point that is redefining what physical security can and should deliver.

Reframing Security

Traditional physical security systems were designed to document events after the fact. While effective for investigation and compliance, they offered limited value in preventing incidents or identifying emerging risks.

AI fundamentally changes this framework.

By continuously analyzing live video and access data, AI-powered security platforms can identify abnormal behavior, unauthorized access and risk patterns as they develop. This enables earlier intervention, faster response and more consistent decision-making — without relying on constant human monitoring.

The result is a shift from passive observation to active situational intelligence through proactive alerts and intervention.

Operational Efficiency at Enterprise Scale

As organizations expand across locations and geographies, legacy security models become increasingly inefficient. Scaling typically requires additional personnel, fragmented systems and manual processes that introduce both cost and risk.

AI-driven platforms address this challenge by automating core security functions such as footage management, incident detection and alert escalation. Intelligent search, automated archiving and centralized oversight give organizations back time and allow security teams to operate more effectively across large environments without proportional increases in staffing.

In this model, efficiency is not achieved by reducing oversight, but by improving focus and precision.

Defining the Modern Physical Security Platform

As expectations evolve, organizations evaluating physical security solutions should look beyond traditional feature sets. A modern platform should provide:

Real-time threat detection supported by AI-driven analytics
Scalability across distributed environments without operational complexity
Integration with existing infrastructure and business systems
Automated workflows for alerts, escalation and retention
Strong data governance and privacy protections
An intuitive interface that supports adoption and accountability
High-cost integration avoidance through native components that work together

These capabilities are no longer differentiators; they are becoming baseline requirements.

Why Verkada Represents a Structural Shift

To illustrate what this transformation looks like in action, Basic ITS points to platforms designed specifically for united, AI-powered security environments. Verkadais one such solution, representing a meaningful departure from legacy physical security approaches to intelligence-driven security infrastructure.

By unifying intelligent hardware, cloud-native architecture and AI-driven analytics into a single platform, Verkada enables organizations to move beyond fragmented systems and reactive workflows.

Because the platform is cloud-centric, scaling to new sites, devices, geographic regions or around the globe is significantly less complex than with conventional systems. New features, such as generative AI and other AI enhancements, are delivered automatically through software updates, future-proofing investments without costly hardware replacements.

Where legacy AI tools often focus narrowly on video analytics, Verkada’s architecture unifies multiple security domains — video, access, alarms, environmental sensors, intercoms, visitor systems and mailroom — under one policy and alerting framework. This enables richer context for incident response and more consistent workflows across the enterprise.

More importantly, Verkada’s approach reflects a broader shift in how physical security is positioned — moving from a cost center focused on loss prevention to a strategic function aligned with operational resilience and risk management.

Looking Ahead

AI is not simply enhancing physical security; it is redefining its rolewithin the organization.

After nearly two decades of incremental progress, the industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation — one that prioritizes intelligence, integration and proactive response. Organizations that recognize this shift and modernize accordingly will be better positioned to manage risk, protect people and property, and operate with confidence in an increasingly complex environment.

Physical security is no longer about recording what happened. It is about understanding what is happening — and acting before risk becomes impact.