The CCTV Staring Patient is an anomaly where the patient or visitor breaks normal behavior and stares directly into the security camera. Normal patients do not acknowledge the camera, so any direct eye contact with the lens is a clear sign of anomalous behavior.
How to Spot It
Monitor the waiting-room CCTV feed. A normal patient will sit still, look around the room, or face the door. An anomalous patient will turn their head and stare directly into the camera, often holding the stare for an extended period.
Detection Difficulty
This anomaly is easy to spot if you're actively monitoring cameras, but it's also easy to miss during a chaotic shift when you're focused on treatments, codes, and other patients.
Strategy
- Glance at the CCTV feed between patient check-ins
- If you see a patient staring at the camera, mark them as anomalous
- This is often one of the easier CCTV anomalies to catch once you build the camera-checking habit