The value of automating temperature monitoring is immediately evident to staff in averted tedium. Likewise, audits and inspections demonstrate the technology’s effectiveness at meeting the increasingly strict requirements established by accreditors and vaccine programs. But perhaps the most important benefit conferred is the ability to ensure rapid identification and response to failing refrigeration units. Appreciating these features, hospital pharmacy has embraced automated temperature monitoring, with expansion projected to continue among those facilities that have moved more slowly to adopt this technology.

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