Exemplifying The Benefits Of A Laboratory Temperature Monitoring System
Anyone who has ever worked at a clinical laboratory knows the critical importance of temperature monitoring to ensure utmost quality testing and safety measures. A technician or a research scientist working in a lab that relies on manual temperature monitoring is very well aware of the challenges that he or she has to confront that can be time consuming, inconsistent, and costly.
Fluctuation in temperature threatens the integrity of the samples, forcing labs to replace them, as they are deemed totally futile after getting exposed to faulty temperatures that lead to increased costs.
Maintaining proper and consistent temperature in the lab is an extremely time-consuming task that can handicap work flow efficiency. For that reason, many labs are adopting laboratory wireless temperature monitoring systems. Here are some of the benefits of using a temperature monitoring system.
- Manually recording refrigeration temperatures on paper has the potential of being missed and is usually done only once or twice a day.
- Automated monitoring systems are easy to use and customizable, allowing the user to monitor and document a range of information such as temperature, pressure, humidity, and other important measures, depending on the sensors installed.
- Upon logging in, the user can view refrigerator groups and their current status, obtaining a snapshot of which refrigerators are in and out of range.
- The system displays graphs of data points collected over a selected period of time, for example the previous week or month, on any of the units selected, and these time periods can be adjusted as needed.
- The system can also generate a variety of useful reports on any or all of the units, display an example of the report before printing or exporting, and provide alerts such as low battery warnings to prevent transmission interruptions.
- It assists in maintaining regulatory compliance, especially when clinics are closed and staff members are not available to check and record the unit temperatures consistently.
- Alert notifications can even be customized; the user can set the parameters and designate the alert method to be used.
- Temperature stability is the need of the hour in warehouses as well. Thus a warehouse temperature monitoring system can help save a great deal of financial waste happening there.
- In the end, the valuable information gleaned from temperature monitoring systems not only helps to identify low-performing refrigeration, freezer, and warmer units when considering equipment replacement, but also provides additional justification for upgrading from non medical-grade refrigerators to medical-grade units, consequently improving medication safety and patient care.
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