Vaccine Temperature Monitoring
CenTrak's automated vaccine temperature monitoring solution uses wireless, battery-powered sensors and advanced software to provide real-time alerts and ensure vaccines are stored within CDC-recommended temperature ranges, thereby preventing vaccine spoilage, enhancing patient safety, improving regulatory compliance, reducing manual logging errors, and saving healthcare facilities significant costs.
Vaccine Temperature Monitoring Solution
Automatically monitor the temperature of vaccine refrigerators and freezers to protect vaccine inventory and ensure patient safety.
Importance of Vaccine Temperature Monitoring
Many life-saving vaccines, including those for COVID-19, are sensitive to temperature changes. Extreme temperature fluctuations can render vaccines ineffective or unsafe. Using a wireless, battery-powered sensor and advanced software, CenTrak generates alerts (audible, visual, SMS, and email) to designated staff if temperatures deviate from programmed thresholds.
Issues with Manual Logging
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 marked "Do Not Use" and safely discarded.
Automated Vaccine Monitoring with CenTrak
CenTrak's automatic temperature and environmental monitoring solution ensures compliance with CDC recommendations and maintains vaccines at appropriate temperatures, preventing product loss and potential infection due to spoilage. Staff receive immediate notifications when temperatures approach set parameters, saving healthcare facilities time and money.
Client Results
- 6,000 doses of flu vaccines valued at $90,000 would have been discarded and repurchased if not for CenTrak.
Key Benefits
- Patient Safety: Ensures proper storage to keep vaccines safe for patient use.
- Loss Prevention: Eliminates risks for product loss caused by environmental failures.
- Regulatory Compliance: Designed to meet all state, federal, and regulatory oversight requirements.
- Staff Efficiency: Eliminates the need for manual temperature checks.
Real-Time Automated Temperature Monitoring
Receive real-time alerts from CenTrak's wireless environmental monitoring system whenever conditions move above or below user-set parameters. The software provides graph, alert, and report views, enabling corrective actions, data analysis, and quick compliance reporting.
Temperature Sensors
- Measures conditions in refrigerators, freezers, coolers, cryogenic tanks, and other storage areas.
- Supports standard temperature measurements, ultra-low temperatures, and liquid nitrogen fill levels (-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 is Vaccines for Children (VFC) compliant, allowing 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.
Additional Uses:
- Clinical Labs
- Pharmacy
- Blood Bank
- Cryogenic Storage
- Food Service
Real-Time Alerting
- Alerts based on sensing value, device status (probe disconnect, door ajar, low battery), and process breakdowns.
- Customizable escalation chains for immediate staff action.
- Corrective actions are logged in the system for sensor and alert management.
- Integration with Active Directory for proper notification routing based on user permissions and staff scheduling.
- Quick configuration of hundreds of sensors, users, and alerts via import/export tool.
Alert Methods:
- SMS/MMS
- Alarm, lights, strobes
- Phone calls
Regulatory Reporting
- Automated compliance reports and sensor history audit logs for individual devices or customized groupings (e.g., departmental views).
- Eliminates manual documentation and reduces human error.
- Supports compliance with:
- FDA 21 CFR Part 11
- Joint Commission
- CDC Storage and Handling of Vaccines
- Vaccines for Children (VFC)
- USP 797 (United States Pharmacopeia)
Environmental Monitoring Technology
- Scalable solution for fully wireless deployments.
- Operates under various network configurations: Active UHF (900 MHz), Wi-Fi (Cisco CCX, Aruba ACX, UDP), including WPA2 Enterprise support.
- Sensors are field-configurable and support over-the-air firmware upgrades.
- BLE connectivity for simple setup.
Additional Supported Solutions:
- 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 before shipping.
- Certificates are electronically stored in the monitoring software.
- Alerts are provided in advance of re-certification deadlines.
- NIST services can be completed by CenTrak or certified partners.
CenTrak's Real-Time Location System (RTLS) has helped over 2,000 healthcare facilities increase productivity, streamline workflows, improve satisfaction, and reduce costs.
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At the 2011 ASHE Show, hospitals showed strong interest in CenTrak's Remote Temperature Monitoring solution, which offers reliable, wireless, 24/7 temperature sensing with automated alerts and detailed reports to help healthcare facilities comply with stringent standards for storing critical medical resources, and can be integrated with Real-Time Location Solutions for expanded functionality.