Healthcare's Leading Vaccine Environmental Monitoring Tool
CenTrak offers a wireless, automated temperature and environmental monitoring system with real-time alerts that ensures vaccines, including temperature-sensitive ones like COVID-19 vaccines, are stored safely and compliantly, preventing costly losses and protecting patient health by replacing inefficient and error-prone manual logging methods.
Individual Patients & Population Health Depend on Safe and Effective Vaccines
Many life-saving vaccines, including those for COVID-19, are sensitive to temperature changes. Extreme temperature fluctuations can render vaccines ineffective or unsafe. CenTrak provides a wireless, battery-powered sensor and industry-leading software solutions that generate alerts (audible, visual, SMS, and email) to specified staff members if temperatures deviate from programmed thresholds.
Manual Logging Can Produce Slow, Inaccurate Results
Manual compliance reporting and twice-daily temperature logs are inefficient, time-consuming, and prone to human error, often resulting in inconsistent or incorrect data. The CDC’s National Immunization Program recommends that any vaccine with questionable integrity or suspected exposure to suboptimal environments should be clearly marked “Do Not Use” and safely discarded.
Automating Vaccine Monitoring with CenTrak Ensures Safety and Compliance
CenTrak’s automatic temperature and environmental monitoring solution for vaccines enables compliance with CDC recommendations and ensures vaccines are stored at the appropriate temperature. Staff receive immediate notifications when temperatures approach set parameters, saving healthcare facilities time and money.
Case Study
6,000 doses of flu vaccines valued at $90,000 would have been discarded and repurchased if not for CenTrak.
Protect Your Vaccines and Patients with an Easy and Error-Proof Solution
Schedule a demo of CenTrak's environmental monitoring solution to see how it can help protect your vaccine inventory and ensure patient safety.
Monitor and Maintain Optimal Vaccine Storage Temperatures
CenTrak's real-time automated temperature monitoring solution for healthcare helps protect the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
Key Benefits
- Patient Safety: Ensure proper storage to keep vaccines safe for patient use.
- Loss Prevention: Eliminate risks for product loss caused by environmental failures.
- Regulatory Compliance: Designed to meet all state, federal, and regulatory oversight requirements.
- Staff Efficiency: Eliminate the need for manual temperature checks, unlocking new efficiencies.
One Solution for Safe Vaccine Storage and Monitoring
Receive real-time alerts from CenTrak’s wireless environmental monitoring system whenever conditions move above or below user-set parameters. CenTrak software offers graph, alert, and report views, enabling customers to take corrective actions, view and analyze data, and quickly pull compliance reports.
Temperature Sensors
CenTrak’s Temperature Sensor provides a cost-effective way to measure the conditions of refrigerators, freezers, coolers, cryogenic tanks, and other storage areas for standard temperature measurements, ultra-low temperatures, and liquid nitrogen fill levels (-200 ºC to +125 ºC with select probes). Features include:
- Two ports for dual-zone monitoring or single-zone with optional door ajar sensor
- Built-in LCD display compliant with Vaccines for Children (VFC) requirements
- Immediate temperature viewing, alarms, and local alert settings
- Configurable reporting and measurement rates (5 to 60 minutes)
- 30 days of measurement data storage for retrieval during power or network outages
- 2-year battery life with low-battery alert feature
The sensor is also used for:
- Clinical Labs
- Pharmacy
- Blood Bank
- Cryogenic Storage
- Food Service
Real-Time Alerting
Alert notifications are based on sensing value, device status (probe disconnect, door ajar, low battery), and process breakdowns. Real-time alerts and customizable escalation chains enable staff to take immediate action when conditions fall outside safe parameters. When an alarm is triggered, the corrective action performed is logged in the system for sensor and alert management. Integration with Active Directory allows notifications to be routed based on user permissions and staff scheduling. Alerts can be sent via:
- SMS/MMS
- Alarm, lights, strobes
- Phone calls
Regulatory Reporting
The system generates a variety of automated compliance reports and sensor history audit logs, based on individual devices or customized groupings (e.g., departmental views). Automated environmental monitoring solutions eliminate the need for costly manual documentation and reduce the potential for human error. Supported standards include:
- FDA 21 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 11
- Joint Commission
- CDC Storage and Handling of Vaccines
- VFC - Vaccines for Children
- USP 797 - United States Pharmacopeia
Environmental Monitoring Technology
CenTrak's Environmental Monitoring technology provides a scalable solution for fully wireless deployments. The sensors and suite of solutions operate under various network configurations, such as Active UHF (900 MHz) and/or Wi-Fi (Cisco CCX, Aruba ACX, UDP), including support for WPA2 Enterprise deployments. Sensors are fully configurable in the field and support over-the-air firmware upgrades, while BLE connectivity allows for simple setup.
CenTrak technology also supports:
- Asset Tracking & Management
- Clinical Workflow Automation
- Staff and Patient Safety
NIST Certification Services
CenTrak adheres to ISO-17025 quality protocols. Each sensor and probe is NIST certified and documented prior to shipping. Certificates are electronically stored in CenTrak’s environmental monitoring software, and alerts are provided in advance of re-certification deadlines. NIST services can be completed by CenTrak or one of its certified partners.
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With the industry’s most scalable and robust Real-Time Location System (RTLS), CenTrak has helped over 2,000 healthcare facilities increase productivity, streamline workflows, improve patient and staff satisfaction, and reduce costs.
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