Hospitals and nursing facilities are confronted with a critical shortage ofqualified nursing staff. At the same time, patient safety must not fall by the wayside.Therefore, we are facing a growing demand for assistance technologies that free uptime for the medical responsibilities. We introduce a prototype of a fall detectionsystem based on cameras and computer vision algorithms, which satisfies the highprivacy demands of hospitals and nursing facilities. Our system explains its oper-ations to patients and staff in order to establish transparency. Whenever we showvideo data to a nurse, it is either anonymized using image processing techniques orprotected against misuse through usage control enforce

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