Hospitals have an obligation to ensure that their patients are healthy: from the medication they take to the food they eat, the last thing a patient should experience is an illness caused by a lapse in safety precautions. With many legacy technologies still in use today, the likelihood of a temperature excursion affecting food or medication should be taken seriously. Despite new regulations mandating the use of more...

Written by SmartSense | May 25, 2018 | Pharmacy Safety

Most non-refrigerated pharmaceuticals come with the recommendation on the package that you store them in a “cool, dry place.” Continuous and automated temperature monitoring makes it easy to follow the “cool” part of these recommendations by changing the temperature of a cooler or freezer when alerted. Wisconsin’s Board of Pharmacy has recently become the first to make a recommendation on how to interpret the “dry”...

Written by SmartSense | March 26, 2018 | Pharmacy Safety

You may have seen the headlines about the crisis at Cleveland’s University Hospitals Fertility Center where there was an IVF safety breach due to lack of temperature monitoring. It is every safety manager’s nightmare. Between the overnight hours of March 3 and 4, one of the facility’s liquid nitrogen storage tanks began to warm up. Undetected by both the hospital staff and its monitoring system, more than 2,000...

Written by SmartSense | March 15, 2018 | Pharmacy Safety

Pharmacies have an obligation to store, deliver, and administer life-saving medications and vaccines. Since patients depend on them and costs are high, maintaining pharmaceuticals at their optimal temperature is paramount to both ensure their efficacy and minimize risk.

Written by SmartSense | February 7, 2018 | Pharmacy Safety

Technology is causing swift transformations in the methods that pharmacies now use to manage and dispense drugs and medications. Advances in diagnostics, automation, and analytics help pharmacists provide better customer service, while also improving patient outcomes and logistical efficiency.

Written by SmartSense | January 18, 2018 | Pharmacy Safety

Act with confidence based on actual product temperature.

We love to build new things, and we love to apply those capabilities to customer challenges. It takes time to get to know each customer’s challenge and to get to why they are interested in a remote monitoring solution.

Written by SmartSense | January 4, 2018 | Pharmacy Safety, Connected Facility