Environmental Monitoring Case Study: Emory University School of Medicine
RTLS Remote Temperature Monitoring for Pharmaceutical and Research Refrigeration Equipment
About Emory School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine is one of the top-ranked institutions for research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Medical School is a top-ranked medical school with 10 departments in the top 20 for federal research funding.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering is ranked number one for best undergraduate biomedical engineering programs by U.S. News and World Report.
The Emory University School of Medicine has a robust and rapidly growing pharmaceutical research facility called Investigational Drug Services, conducting industry and federally-funded drug studies.
There are several procedures and systems in place requiring regulatory monitoring to ensure research is conducted safely and under optimal environmental conditions.
RTLS Environmental Monitoring Opportunity
Emory engaged with Vizzia Technologies seeking a more robust, best-in-class environmental monitoring solution. Emory was looking to improve the efficiency of staff members and was looking for solutions to automatically monitor temperature, humidity, and other environmental conditions of key rooms and refrigerators in their labs.
Environmental Monitoring is necessary to meet Joint Commission compliance requirements and ensure the safe, consistent storage conditions of sensitive pharmaceuticals under investigation.
Their requirements included:
- Prevent product loss: Real-time alerts let you know if a refrigerator, freezer, or room strays from desired environmental conditions to enable immediate response.
- Automate regulatory compliance: Generate environmental monitoring reports for key regulators such as the Joint Commission, FDA, CDC, and Vaccines for Children.
- Cover all environments and Scenarios: Temperature, CO2, ambient humidity, air pressure differential, power-off alerting
- Maximize Staff Efficiency: Improve Staff Satisfaction. Real-time data gathering and analytics combined with automated, instant notifications, if the environment monitored changes, enable staff to focus fully on the research.
- Customer Support: Manage the solution end-to-end including set-up, deployment, configuration, calibration, certification, and user training.
The Clinical Environmental Monitoring Solution
Vizzia specified and deployed a complete turnkey enterprise environmental monitoring solution consisting of:
- Improved, more robust, feature-rich temperature sensors for their research spaces, refrigerator, and freezer units
- Award-winning environmental monitoring software
- Dedicated support resource to ensure all sensors and system alerts run flawlessly all the time.
The new environmental monitoring solution reports more accurate temperature readings, as well as support power-off and door-ajar alerting. Nearly 100 sensors are in use monitoring the temperature of refrigerators and freezers, as well as ambient temperature/humidity of active research spaces.
Vizzia’s Environmental Monitoring solution is fully compliant with key federal guidelines from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
The Environmental Monitoring Benefits for Emory School of Medicine
Emory relies upon Vizzia to automatically monitor the temperature and environmental conditions of medical supplies in clinical trials. Real-time alerts let clinicians know if a refrigerator, freezer, or room deviates from desired conditions to protect important and expensive products.
Emory is enjoying the benefit of accurate and automatic documentation of refrigerator temperature logs,
- Environmental Monitoring data is captured every 15 minutes, at every refrigerator location, and room sensor every day of the year.
- Monitoring occurs 24/7, even in locations without staff after normal business hours.
- Instantaneous notifications enable extremely accurate and timely alerting.
Susan Rogers, Director of Research Services at Emory IDS
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