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The Hidden Cost of Temperature Excursions—and How to Cut Exceptions Without Slowing Routes

February 4, 2026 admin Specimen Rejection Comments Off

Courier and logistics operators moving temperature-sensitive healthcare shipments are not aware of temperature excursions at the moment it happens.

What Happens to Medical Samples Between Patient and Result?

January 16, 2026 admin Laboratories Comments Off

(Because Every Result Depends on What Happened in Between) At 8:12 a.m., a phlebotomist named Maria draws blood from a patient, Mr. Johnson, at a busy outpatient collection center. The tubes are labeled, placed in a rack, and set aside for the 10 a.m. courier pickup. By 2:30 p.m., in […]

The Sensor-Agnostic Cold Chain Monitoring Guide

January 6, 2026 admin Healthcare Comments Off

Every temperature excursion is more than a “logistics event.” It’s a patient-impact event waiting to surface later—failed QC, retesting, redraws, delayed therapy, and compliance headaches. Most teams already know they need cold chain monitoring. The harder question is: How do you reduce excursions and prove compliance without adding yet another […]

Closing the Medical Lab Cold Chain Accuracy Gap

November 14, 2025 admin Laboratories Comments Off

The day everything looked “fine” — until it wasn’t At 10:07 a.m., your phlebotomy site labels the tubes perfectly, closes the tote, and hands them to the courier. Cold-chain-traceability? Chain-of-custody? On time delivery? Nothing “looks” wrong at delivery. Hours later, QC flags the run. Now you’re re-collecting patient samples, re-routing […]

The Importance of Traceability When Transporting Frozen Samples

July 21, 2025 admin Healthcare, Specimen Rejection Comments Off

By Harshul Gupta (CTO), Keith Miller (CBDO), and Tulay Yucebas (Director of Continuous Improvement), Akuratemp LLC Transporting frozen samples between laboratories is one of the most technically demanding aspects of the diagnostic cold chain. When physician office collections include frozen specimens, those samples must be frozen immediately after collection, packed […]

Optimizing Performance of Medical Courier Totes

July 21, 2025 admin Healthcare Comments Off

By Harshul Gupta (CTO), Keith Miller (CBDO), and Tulay Yucebas (Director of Continuous Improvement), Akuratemp LLC In the diagnostic cold chain, every degree and every hour counts. Across the United States, diagnostic laboratories rely heavily on medical couriers to collect and transport patient specimens—often from physician office lockboxes or regional […]

Reducing the Risk of Damaging Patient Samples in Lockbox Collection Systems

July 21, 2025 admin Healthcare Comments Off

By Harshul Gupta (CTO), Keith Miller (CBDO), and Tulay Yucebas (Director of Continuous Improvement), Akuratemp LLC In diagnostic logistics, every hour and every degree matters. Across the United States, most diagnostic laboratories depend on lockboxes as a key part of their sample collection network. Physician offices place patient specimens into […]

ADLM 2024: Addressing Industry Challenges and Innovations in Thermal Packaging with Akuratemp

August 23, 2024 admin Newsroom Comments Off

ADLM – Two weeks ago The Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine hosted 900+ exhibitors and 200+ new and cutting edge products and services. We had the invaluable chance to connect with major players in chemistry, diagnostics, and laboratory medicine and gain countless insights on lab management, the state of healthcare, and important changes […]

Akuratemp at the 2024 ADLM Clinical Lab Expo

July 19, 2024 admin Newsroom Comments Off

2024 Annual Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM) Clinical Lab Expo Booth #2372 for healthcare temperature security We are excited to announce #ADLM2024 is just a few days away! Akuratemp, LLC has been an active exhibitor at the Association for Diagnostic & Laboratory Medicine Clinical Lab Expo (formerly AACC) […]

Akuratemp’s Take on the ALMA 2023 Conference: Emerging Concerns for Compliance and Total Chain of Custody in Laboratory Medicine

October 26, 2023 admin Healthcare Comments Off

Akuratemp attended the 2023 Analytical Laboratory Managers Association conference in Chapel Hill, NC at the Friday Conference Center on October 10th-12th, 2023. The conference, which drew approximately 150 attendees and exhibitors, aimed to provide a complete leadership experience for attendees, some of which were first time lab managers. Highlights of […]