5 Must-Haves for Creating a Robust Lab Traceability System

The integrity of all laboratory work and cleanroom operations relies on a secure and verifiably stable chain of custody.   To meet modern requirements, such as Good Laboratory Practice and Good Clinical Practice regulations, labs and cleanrooms need a robust traceability system that creates an auditable link between an asset and its environmental history. Such a…

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5 Questions for Environmental Monitoring Maintenance

Handling preventative maintenance for your cloud-based environmental monitoring system can feel like a daunting task, but with modern platforms like DicksonOne and OCEAViewTM, it’s simpler than you think.  This blog outlines five key questions to ask to ensure you’re being proactive about your environmental monitoring system maintenance. 1. When Should We Review Our Alarm Template…

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Elevating Medication Storage Compliance in Hospital Pharmacies

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Keeping Medications Safe: A Roadmap to Storage Compliance and Control Every pharmacy director understands the critical importance of medication storage. However, the roadmap for proper and efficient medication storage conditions isn’t always clear-cut.  What Typical Storage Challenges Do Pharmacy Directors Face? Even with established standards and protocols, pharmacies can face challenges with their approach to…

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Maintaining Cell Therapy Lab Compliance

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5 Keys to Compliance Your Cell Therapy Lab Can’t Ignore When a single dose of CAR-T cell therapy can cost more than half a million dollars, the loss of even one batch can devastate a hospital’s bottom line.  Unlike chemically-based medications, which can lose potency as a consequence of a temperature excursion, slight temperature fluctuations can…

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8 Steps to Compliant Temperature & Humidity Mapping for Pharmaceutical Warehouses 

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Temperature mapping is essential for proper pharmaceutical storage control, but the real test is proving your methods are consistent and verifiable across the board.  When every facility uses a slightly different protocol, you’re left with a patchwork of data that can be the troubling regulatory compliance gaps that a sharp-eyed auditor will question first. WHO…

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Humidity Sensor Questions and Answers

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Answers to Common Humidity Sensor Questions Designed for real-time humidity monitoring, humidity sensors deliver accurate data to ensure that your specific environment stays within the required humidity range. This is critical for industries such as hospitals, pharmaceuticals, food storage, and manufacturing, where humidity control is essential for meeting quality standards and protecting sensitive materials from…

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Pharmaceutical Logistics and WHO Annex 9 Compliance: What You Need to Know

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The safe transportation of temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals is critical in maintaining product integrity and ensuring patient safety. WHO Annex 9 provides essential guidelines for temperature-controlled transport, emphasizing best practices for handling, storing, and distributing pharmaceuticals under GxP Pharma standards. Importance of Temperature-Controlled Transport Pharmaceuticals, especially vaccines, biologics, and certain medications, require strict transit temperature and humidity…

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Standard FD X15-140: An essential tool for temperature mapping in controlled environments

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Standards play a central role in quality management and process compliance. Among them, FD X15-140 stands out as an essential reference for the characterisation and verification of climatic and thermostatic chambers. But why is it so crucial, especially in the context of temperature mapping? Let’s explore the challenges, opportunities and solutions. Temperature mapping: a vital…

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Enhance Your Efficiency with Wireless LoRaWAN Temperature Monitoring Solutions

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In today’s fast-paced world, businesses thrive on efficiency and precision. One crucial aspect often overlooked is temperature monitoring. Enter Wireless LoRaWAN Temperature Monitoring – a revolutionary solution to streamline your operations. Revolutionizing Temperature Monitoring: What is LoRaWAN? LoRaWAN, short for Long Range Wide Area Network, is a wireless communication protocol tailored for long-range communication with…

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8 Remote Patient Monitoring Tools Hospitals & Providers Can Use to Improve

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At Dickson Data, we develop precise and consistent temperature and humidity monitoring solutions to comply with ever-changing health and safety regulations in the heatlhcare industry, which makes us naturally curious about other monitoring, sensing, and data collection tools being used Hospitals use our temperature data loggers throughout their facility to keep track of vaccine temperatures,…

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