Blogs

Closing the Medical Lab Cold Chain Accuracy Gap

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 […]

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The Importance of Traceability When Transporting Frozen Samples

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 […]

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Optimizing Performance of Medical Courier Totes

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 […]

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Reducing the Risk of Damaging Patient Samples in Lockbox Collection Systems

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 […]

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

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 […]

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Akuratemp at the 2024 ADLM Clinical Lab Expo

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) […]

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

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 […]

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Leverage AI to Enhance Healthcare Supply Chain Efficiency

Our global supply chain benefits from intelligent solutions to ensure that temperature-sensitive shipments maintain their required temperatures throughout the journey from manufacturer to consumer. Anita Gardeva states that AI-enabled supply chain control towers are garnering particular interest; eighty-eight percent of healthcare executives identified AI as a ‘critical’ technology for their […]

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Enhance Traceability in the Healthcare Supply Chain with Smart Monitoring

Our global life sciences industry is experiencing an accelerated transformation in its supply chain. A severe shortage of labor resources has impacted material availability and created a logistical roadblock. Adding to the delayed supply chain, the increasing global regulatory requirements on temperature-sensitive products negatively affect the pharmaceutical supply chain in […]

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Akuratemp LLC Achieves ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems Certification

Scope of Registration: Design and Assembly of Temperature Controlled Shipping Kits Arden, North Carolina – Akuratemp LLC has achieved ISO 9001:2015 quality management system certification from NSF-ISR, an NSF International company. ISO 9001:2015 certification demonstrates Akuratemp LLC’s commitment to customer satisfaction by meeting the needs of clients in quality, delivery, […]

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