Real-time temperature tracking means changing times for healthcare logistics
Big pharmaceutical companies are driving healthcare logistics toward increasing globalisation and simplification as they seek economies of scale. Alongside this is the requirement for increasing delivery specialisation to handle a growing number of specialist products with specific handling and transport requirements. The biotechnology products being developed by pharmaceutical companies and specialised biotech firms are higher-value, lower volume but most importantly for logistics and transport companies, higher maintenance.
This has resulted in more advanced technology being used by healthcare logistics providers as they look to become more sophisticated, high tech and precise in their operation. Systems such as Traceall’s TR500RCS Product Tracking can now not only monitor fleet progress and status, tracking every batch and reporting real-time the completion of the delivery, but increasingly the all-important temperature levels of the cold chain can be monitored in real-time, alerting head office to any potentially damaging changes. It is now not simply about getting a product from point A to point B, but temperature levels have to be regulated and reported.
