Open International Journal of Informatics (OIJI) Vol. 6 No 4 (2018) 104 A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW OF SECURITY PERIMETER IN HOSPITAL FACILITY Huraizah Zakaria 1 , Hafiza Abas 2 , Faridah Hanim Yahya 3 , Roslinda Ramli 4 , Rahmah Lob Yussof 5 1,2, Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; 5 Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Pahang Campus huraizah.zakaria@gmail.com, hafiza.kl@utm.my, rahmah128@pahang.uitm.edu.my ABSTRACT Hospitals and medical facilities require more protection. The nature of its business poses unique security challenges that can leave the vulnerable to theft and internal misuse. Despite the risk, hospital security must able to attain the objective of friendly and open design that make patients, relatives and visitors feel comfortable. However, the hospital and healthcare institutions have tendency to avoid potentially invasive security measure and therefore they generally slow to adopt new technologies. The successful implementation healthcare security perimeter relies on the balanced approach of state- of-the-art security measures and the fast and proper response of medical situation of patients. Studies on security perimeter loopholes have focused on physical security and less on technological aspects. Therefore, there is a need to identify the relevant factors in the scope of technology. This paper provides a systematic review of the literature, with the aim to identify the technological factors of security perimeter for the institutions. Initially, 1972 papers were retrieved by manual search from five databases, two levels of inclusion and exclusion processes. The total of 464 papers were determined during first level of inclusion/exclusion criteria. Further, 63 papers were identified in the secondary search which involved reviewing the references in the selected primary studies. The total number of primary selected studies was 527 studies. Finally, after the second level inclusion/exclusion criteria, 17 studies were included. The findings have revealed three major group categories of technological factors in hospital security perimeter: hardware, system and model. Keywords: Systematic Literature Review (SLR), Perimeter Protection, Hospital secured perimeter, Healthcare Physical Security, Hospital Perimeter Security, Physical environment Security 1. INTRODUCTION Hospitals and medical premises are type of area which contain complex security challenges. They must be always ready to become some type of welcoming public spaces. Yet, every hospital and medical institution also has many sensitive assets that need to be secured all the time. Important assets such as patients, doctors, nurses and supporting staffs as well as protection of drugs and confidential patients’ data are critical and need to be secured. While the hospital and healthcare institution are often large and spread out, valuable equipment can be a target of theft and vandalism. Health care stakeholders are concerned about the growing risk of protecting patient health information from breaches. With the numerous data breaches in healthcare over last several years, it looks like patients’ expectation of their data’s privacy and security is