CenTrak Clinical Pharmacy Environmental Monitoring Solution
The CenTrak Clinical Pharmacy Environmental Monitoring Solution uses wireless sensors and software to automatically track and control temperature and humidity in critical medication storage areas—such as refrigerators, freezers, and ambient rooms—providing real-time alerts, ensuring patient safety, regulatory compliance, loss prevention, and staff efficiency across healthcare settings including clinical labs, vaccine storage, blood banks, and cryogenic storage.
Clinical Pharmacy Environmental Monitoring Solution
Track and control all clinical environmental monitoring conditions to ensure the safety and integrity of pharmaceutical products.
Automated Environmental Monitoring
CenTrak automatically monitors the temperature and ambient conditions (temperature and humidity) of critical medications, vaccines, and supplements used in healthcare facilities. The system uses wireless LCD display sensors and robust software to generate alerts (audible, visual, SMS, and email) when measurements deviate from set parameters.
Benefits of Automated Monitoring
- Patient Safety: Ensures proper pharmacy storage conditions to keep medicines safe for patient use.
- Loss Prevention: Eliminates risks for expensive product loss caused by environmental failures.
- Regulatory Compliance: Designed to meet all state, federal, and regulatory oversight requirements.
- Staff Efficiency: Removes the need for manual temperature checks, unlocking new efficiencies.
Key Features
Temperature Sensors
- Measures conditions of refrigerators, freezers, and medication storage areas for standard, ultra-low, and liquid nitrogen temperatures (-200°C to +125°C with select probes).
- Two ports for dual-zone monitoring or single-zone with optional door ajar sensor.
- Built-in LCD display for immediate temperature viewing, alarms, and local alert settings.
- 2-year battery life with low-battery alerting.
- Configurable measurement and reporting rates (5 to 60 minutes).
- 30 days of measurement data storage for retrieval during network or power outages.
Applications:
- Clinical Labs
- Vaccine Storage
- Blood Banks
- Cryogenic Storage
- Food Service
Ambient Temperature & Humidity Sensors
- Maintains correct ambient temperatures (0°C to 70°C) and relative humidity (10% to 90% RH) in medication rooms.
- 2-year battery life and low-battery alert functionality.
- Configurable reporting and measurement rates (5 to 60 minutes).
- 30 days of measurement data storage.
- Certified 2-year calibration for measurement accuracy.
Applications:
- Clinical Lab
- Blood Bank
- Food Service
Real-Time Alerting
- Alerts based on sensing measurements, sensor status (probe disconnect, door ajar, low battery), and process breakdowns.
- Real-time alerting and custom escalation chains for immediate staff action.
- Automatic logging of corrective actions for sensor and alert management.
- Integration with Active Directory for notification routing based on user permissions and staff scheduling.
- Rapid configuration of sensors, users, and alerts via import/export tool.
Alert Delivery Methods:
- SMS/MMS
- Alarm, Lights, Strobes
- Phone Calls
Regulatory Reporting
- Auto-generates compliance reports and sensor history audit logs.
- Supports customized grouping (departmental views) or individual device reporting.
- Eliminates manual documentation and reduces human error.
Supported Regulations:
- Joint Commission
- CDC Storage and Handling of Vaccines
- VFC (Vaccines for Children)
- AABB (American Association of Blood Banks)
- USP 797 (United States Pharmacopeia)
- ASHRAE 170
- FDA 21 CFR Part 11
Environmental Monitoring Technology
- Scalable, fully wireless deployments.
- Operates under various network configurations (CenTrak UHF, Wi-Fi including Cisco CCX, Aruba ACX, UDP, WPA2 Enterprise).
- Supports over-the-air firmware upgrades and field configuration.
- Simple setup via BLE connectivity.
Additional Supported Solutions:
- Asset Tracking & Management
- Clinical Workflow Automation
- Staff and Patient Safety
NIST Certification Services
- Adheres to ISO-17025 quality protocols.
- All testing is NIST traceable; each sensor and probe is certified and documented prior to shipment.
- NIST certificates are electronically stored in the software.
- Re-certification notifications can be enabled.
- NIST services provided by CenTrak or certified partners.
CenTrak's environmental monitoring solution is designed to protect medication safety, ensure regulatory compliance, and improve operational efficiency in healthcare pharmacy environments.
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