100 Years of Listening: Solving Healthcare’s Environmental Monitoring Challenges
Thank you for joining our recent webinar, 100 Years of Listening: Solving Healthcare’s Environmental Monitoring Challenges. In this session, our experts shared actionable strategies to help hospitals, labs and other critical care areas meet strict regulatory demands, reduce excessive alarms, and optimize monitoring systems for growth.
From understanding CLIA, CAP, and Joint Commission requirements to selecting the right connectivity options, implementing smarter alerts, and streamlining audit readiness, we discussed proven best practices used by leading healthcare organizations. Whether you manage a single facility or multiple locations, this discussion can help you safeguard critical assets, improve operational efficiency, and maintain continuous compliance.
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Highlights:
The Challenges We Addressed: Common compliance pitfalls in hospital and lab monitoring — from incomplete temperature logs to alarm fatigue — and how to correct them before they become audit findings.
Best Practices Shared: Step-by-step approaches for meeting CLIA, CAP, and Joint Commission requirements, including calibration schedules, documentation methods, and alarm response protocols.
Solutions Presented: How technologies like LoRaWAN, automated reporting, and centralized dashboards improve data access, reduce IT reliance, and ensure 24/7 compliance visibility.
Key Takeaways: Practical strategies to protect patient safety, safeguard valuable assets, and streamline monitoring processes across single and multi-site healthcare operations.
Questions & Answers
We received a number of thoughtful questions during the webinar. Here’s the recap.
Industry best practice is every 12 months, but the ideal interval depends on your accrediting body, regulatory requirements, and internal SOPs. CLIA requires accuracy and reliability but doesn’t set a fixed interval for environmental monitoring, while some labs choose 24 months with mid-point spot checks, and others require calibration as often as every year.
Use time delays in your alert settings to avoid notifications from short temperature fluctuations (such as door openings). Role-based alarm templates ensure alerts go to the right person first, with escalation paths if there’s no response.
DicksonOne loggers store up to 30,000 readings in onboard memory, so no data is lost. With LoRaWAN and a cellular-enabled gateway on backup power, monitoring and alerts can continue during outages.
Yes. Facilities can combine LoRaWAN, Wi-Fi, and Ethernet-connected devices within the same DicksonOne platform, making it easy to choose the best option for each location or department.
Use the daily temperature check report or add annotations directly in DicksonOne. Both include timestamps and the name of the reviewer, meeting CAP’s requirement for initials and sign-offs.
Yes. Reports such as excursion summaries and calibration due dates can be emailed on a weekly or monthly basis to anyone who needs them, from department managers to compliance officers.
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