Posts about Pharmacy (2)

Wholesalers and retailers in the food manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries must ensure the effective delivery of pathogen-free food and critical medications to their customers who rely on them for their health and well-being. To do so successfully requires accurate, real-time data across the cold chain, from the manufacturing floor to the warehouse to point of sale. It is, therefore, a top priority for executives to implement an IoT Sensing-as-a-Service solution to ensure seamless quality assurance. When empowered by data-driven decision-making tools, safety and QA managers are guided by descriptive insights about on-the-ground operations to streamline workflows and thus reduce risks related to safety and product loss. Ensuring quality in food manufacturing with greater …

IoT-enabled Sensing-as-a-Service solutions offer valuable insights and automated, prescriptive workflows that empower employees to protect supply chain assets in real time. In this post, we examine three supply chain networks that clearly demonstrate the benefits of implementing a digitalized monitoring system: retail food service, laboratory research, and vaccine administration. Food Service: Ensuring safety, quality, and supply with advanced traceability With the FSMA Final Rule on Produce Safety taking effect in January 2026, food service companies must prepare now to ensure they can comply with the new food safety standards and regulations. Issues such as cross-contamination, allergen control, and ingredient traceability remain crucial to ensuring the health of both customers and …

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: Threats to health and wellbeing Emotional crisis Damage to brand equity Legal implications Increased regulatory scrutiny and reprimand To prevent or minimize these hazards, processes and workflows must integrate digital technologies that provide executives and management with real-time visibility into quality and safety excursions so that employees will be guided to execute the appropriate corrective actions. In this post, we demonstrate how an IoT Sensing-as-a-Service solution helps business leaders in healthcare and food service mitigate risk in two specific use cases: hospital pharmacies …

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 putting the safety of these vaccines and the patients who need them at risk. But when IoT-enabled devices are integrated within a hospital, clinic, or pharmacy, product safety, operational efficiency, and clinical outcomes are optimized. By empowering routine tasks with automation and generating descriptive insights and prescriptive workflows with data analysis, healthcare …

The global population is increasing at an astonishing rate. And with more people living longer than ever before, the prevalence of chronic diseases is also on the rise. It’s no surprise, then, that there is growing demand for designing cost-effective healthcare systems that can efficiently manage and provide a wide range of medical services while reducing overall expenses. To achieve optimal outcomes at the lowest possible cost, operational efficiency at hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare organizations is therefore essential — especially given critical understaffing due to the ongoing labor shortage. Creating a strategy to maintain the safety of patients, products, assets, and employees is fundamental not only for meeting compliance regulations, but also for protecting the …

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 means to provide greater service to the customers and communities we serve. SmartSense is playing an important role in this nationwide vaccination initiative by supporting the distribution and storage of vaccines. Of all best practices for handling COVID-19 products approved for administration by the CDC, perhaps none is more crucial than temperature monitoring. That’s because …