Healthcare and food service profoundly depend on the public trust. Any deviation that consumers experience regarding medication efficacy and food safety carries the potential for the following risks:

Written by SmartSense | January 17, 2024 | Pharmacy Safety, Food Safety, Vaccines, Pharmacies, Data, Innovation, Patient Safety, Healthcare

Implementing Internet of Things (IoT) Sensing-as-a-Service solutions at healthcare organizations is more crucial than ever as the annual vaccines now considered essential for public health have proliferated, such as COVID-19, flu, RSV, HPV, shingles, pneumonia, and hepatitis-B. Especially during a long-term labor shortage, gaps in staffing can compromise holding, handling, and administration procedures, thereby...

Written by SmartSense | November 29, 2023 | Pharmacy Safety, Vaccines, Data, Innovation, Healthcare

As the U.S. enters the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the great news is that vaccination programs are now in Phase 2 in most states across the country. Pharmacies, supersites, clinics, hospitals, and community centers are all working overtime to inoculate the population at large and return our lives back to a sense of normalcy. From a business perspective, here at SmartSense, we approached the pandemic as a...

Written by SmartSense | March 26, 2021 | Pharmacy Safety, Supply Chain, Vaccines, Pharmacies, Coronavirus

COVID-19 has been devastating, and it appears to be far from over. As a pandemic, it’s likely one of the most adverse events of our lifetime. Around the globe, from Italy to Spain, France, major cities in the United States, and multiple Asian regions of the Pacific Rim, communities have been shut down hard.

Written by SmartSense | May 5, 2020 | Pharmacy Safety, Food Safety, Connected Facility, Supply Chain, COVID-19

A challenge that has faced the immunizations market has been not only the availability of vaccines, but transporting them to middle and lower-income nations. The cold chain to support transportation and storage has not been developed enough.

Written by SmartSense | April 23, 2020 | Pharmacy Safety, Supply Chain