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As part of Nexus' Core Foundation Services, Temperature Monitoring improves quality of care, simplifies regulatory compliance, increases labor efficiency and productivity, and reduces spoilage

Potential benefits include:

• Documents regulatory compliance using automated sensing and logging
• Increases labor efficiency, removing the need for time-consuming manual logs
• Constant monitoring of safe temperature and humidity ranges
• Lowers costs by reducing spoilage
• Leverages secure Wi-Fi network
• Variety of battery-powered Wi-Fi temperature and humidity tags

The Joint Commission and other regulatory agencies regulate temperature and humidity management processes in hospitals. Pharmaceuticals, organs, blood bags, vaccines, tissues, food and other items all require strict temperature ranges for quality patient care and safety. Traditionally, that meant nursing, lab, pharmacy and food service staff would perform manual temperature monitoring and logging throughout clinics and hospitals hundreds of times each day.

When combined with Nexus Core Foundation Services, AeroScout's Wi-Fi Temperature Monitoring solution automates the current manual processes that most hospitals have for managing refrigerator temperatures. The system uses battery-operated temperature and humidity sensors that leverage the hospital's existing secure Wi-Fi network, transmitting readings every few minutes to the monitoring software. There are no hard wires and the sensors are simple and easy to deploy.

Exception-based alerts automatically notify staff when a value is out of range, freeing valuable hospital resources from the traditional manual checking-and-logging approach. This alerting system also allows for quicker response times, resulting in less spoilage of valuable medication and irreplaceable samples. Wireless temperature monitoring can also be used in data centers and network closets, where sensitive electronic equipment needs to be monitored, or in blanket warmers and food delivery carts. Other condition monitoring applications include humidity monitoring of patient, storage and
operating rooms.

Nexus Core Foundation Services
Temperature Monitoring is a capability offered in conjunction with Nexus' Core Foundation Services. Designed to help healthcare organizations increase the quality of patient care and improve productivity while meeting the security, availability, and resiliency needs of the healthcare industry, Nexus Core Foundation Services utilize advanced technologies from Cisco and other industry leaders to:

• Enable healthcare providers to collaborate securely in real-time to deliver higher quality patient care
• Provide anywhere, anytime access to information to increase productivity of healthcare workers, improve workflow processes, and provide continuity of care to patients
• Design, deploy, and support strategic data centers to deliver resilient storage and disaster recovery services
• Consolidate customer networks — core, medical data, biomedical, and security networks — to optimize the deployment, support, and network management cost value

Resources

• Nexus Healthcare Practice Overview (PDF)
• Nexus Point of Care Services (PDF)
• Nexus Core Foundation Services (PDF)
• Nexus Temperature Monitoring Services (PDF)
• Nexus Physical Security for Healthcare Overview (PDF)

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