Certain medications require to be shipped to patients at a consistently cold temperature or frozen in some cases.
Cold chain management aims at controlling the temperature and environmental conditions of medications through the entire supply chain, from manufacturing and storage, to transportation and distribution. Most pharmaceuticals are temperature sensitive, and when exposed to unsuitable environments, their potency may be impacted. The pharmaceutical cold chain starts at manufacturing facilities, where they research, formulate, package, and properly store products before mass distribution. The second phase involves distribution, where wholesalers are responsible for adhering to temperature guidelines by monitoring the environmental conditions of the warehouse and transportation. The third phase involves the pharmacy, usually a specialty pharmacy, shipping the medication to a patient’s home.
Medical-grade Cold Storage you can trust!
Our TrueBlue™ commitment to quality, reliability, service, and support sets us apart. Since 1977, Helmer Scientific has led the industry by focusing on medical grade refrigerated products; designing and manufacturing innovative, specialized medical, pharmacy, and laboratory products that support our customers’ efforts.
Helmer Scientific medical-grade products maintain superior temperature uniformity and consistency throughout the entire storage chamber which is critical for ensuring that drugs and vaccines are stored within the proper temperature range and that all storage space can be fully utilized. Integrated access control provides an additional level of security by limiting and tracking user access. Our full line of undercounter and upright refrigerators and freezers, as well as pass-thru refrigerators and ultra-low freezers, include advanced alarm monitoring features, medication dispensing compatibility, and high-performance options and accessories for custom storage configurability.
GX Solutions Professional Medical-grade Refrigerators
Proper cold storage of medications and vaccines is critical in the healthcare environment, and often can be the difference between viable, effective products and ineffective or wasted product. With GX Solutions, professional, medical-grade cold storage is now available and takes cold storage to new levels. Focusing on temperature, noise and energy management, GX Solutions are the first cold storage solutions to optimize all three areas and offer a professional, medical-grade solution.
GX Solutions pharmacy and vaccine refrigerators are powered by OptiCool™ technology which pairs variable capacity compressor (VCC) technology and natural hydrocarbons (HC) to achieve performance characteristics that offer a superior storage environment. Optimized temperature management (uniformity, recovery and stability) provides confidence that contents are stored at the right temperature regardless of their location within the unit with fewer temperature deviations. In addition, noise levels are lowered, energy usage is reduced, and environmental sustainability initiatives are supported.
GX Undercounter Pharmacy Refrigerators
GX Upright Pharmacy Refrigerators
Pass-thru Refrigerators
Pass-thru refrigerators create a boundary between clean rooms and regular facility environments while permitting products to be removed from outside the clean room on a “first-in-first-out” basis, improving inventory control and boosting productivity.
BD Pyxis™ ES Refrigerator with Helmer Access Technology
The BD Pyxis™ ES Refrigerator provides integrated and secure, single-line access to high-risk and high-value refrigerated medications.
This industry-first product features precise temperature management and secure locking bins accessed only via the BD Pyxis™ Medstation™ ES. This enhances care by supporting medication safety, clinical workflow efficiency and regulatory compliance, while helping to reduce waste and mitigate the risk of diversion of refrigerated medications.
Laboratory Freezers
Laboratory freezers are designed specifically for the high demands of healthcare. Built-in monitoring systems provide continuous monitoring, real-time alarm notification, and status notification for worry-free storage, allowing your staff to focus on the critical functions of their job.
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Ultra-Low Freezers
How It’s Made Matters. Reliable storage at -80°C. Our Ultra-Low temperature freezers are designed and developed to create a refined system that works together, providing optimized performance for the long-term storage of samples and medications.
Founded in 1948, Follett is a leading manufacturer of innovative equipment for the healthcare market.
Follett high-performance, medical-grade refrigerators and freezers deliver exceptional reliability and consistent temperatures for critical product storage. A full line of stainless steel countertop, undercounter and upright refrigerators and freezers provide healthcare’s most consistent temperature performance and a full set of user-valued alarming, monitoring and storage features. Compatible with all medication dispensing and temperature monitoring systems, all Follett refrigerators and freezers come with options and accessories for customization to meet a facility’s needs.
Countertop Medical Grade Refrigerators and Freezers
Ideal for small storage needs, Follett forced-air countertop refrigerators and freezers offer superior temperature performance in space-saving configurations. 1 and 2 cubic foot models fit on standard 24” deep counters. External digital temperature display in user-selective F or C offers integral high/low alarming and display sleep mode.
Undercounter Refrigerators and Freezers
Follett Performance Plus undercounter refrigerators and freezers provide superior high-performance temperature control for critical product storage. Designed for use below standard and lower ADA-compatible counters, Follett Performance Plus delivers outstanding reliability and user-valued features that set us apart from the competition. Heavy-duty forced air cooling delivers consistent temperatures and quick recovery to maintain your valuable medications at the right temperature. Full stainless steel construction and heavy-duty components ensure long-term reliability.
Upright Refrigerators and Freezers
High-performance upright refrigerators and freezers designed specifically for healthcare. From back plenum air ducts that ensure consistent, cabinet-wide cooling, to a feature rich, intuitive alarming and display interface, Follett upright refrigerators and freezers take the worry out of critical product storage, allowing your staff to focus on the job at hand.
Digital Data Logger
The digital data logger complies with all CDC vaccine storage guidelines. Vaccines require storage within a defined temperature range in order to maintain their potency. The data logger with detachable probe records and stores temperature information at user-programmable intervals for continuous monitoring. It features a touchscreen display and includes dry contacts for remote alarming. The data logger can be installed on any Follett refrigerator or freezer.
Where Specialty Pharmacy Meets
The Summit attracts thousands of industry executives and professionals to participate in business workshops, educational seminars, exhibits, and live continuing education credits, along with numerous networking and social events. Attendees will gain an in-depth understanding of all aspects of specialty pharmacy from renowned industry speakers who share insight about the most current information on the many facets of the more than $150 billion specialty pharmacy channel.
From pharmacy owners and C-Suite executives to purchasing agents and national account managers, Summit attendees represent a diverse blend of the industry’s most influential thought leaders and key decision-makers. The broad variety of timely business and educational sessions, wide range of expert speakers, and extensive networking opportunities make the Asembia annual conference an essential event for all health care professionals. The 2020 conference will welcome over 6,500 attendees, representing more than 1,200 organizations.
Asembia
In addition to hosting the Summit, as the leading services provider to the specialty pharmacy industry, Asembia collaborates with specialty pharmacies, manufacturers, prescribers, payers and other industry stakeholders to bring strategic channel management solutions, leading-edge products and high-touch services to the specialty pharmacy industry that help our customers optimize patient care and outcomes. Learn more at www.asembia.com.
Health Care Logistics offers a variety of refrigerators and freezers to meet your temperature-sensitive medication storage needs. From compact countertop units to full-size appliances, we make it easy to manage any critical drug storage situation. Multiple locking options are available so you can choose the level of security and accessibility to match your facility’s needs.
Enjoy these benefits, which are standard on our pharmacy-grade refrigerators:
Digital Microprocessor Temperature Controller: Pharmacy-grade refrigerators maintain precise settings of temperature cycles to meet today’s standards and display interior ambient temperatures in
F° or C°.
Forced Draft Circulation: Pharmacy-grade refrigerators provide required temperature uniformity and recovery after door openings.
Temperature Alarms: Pharmacy-grade refrigerators are equipped with audible and visual high and low temperature alarms so you can respond quickly and before expensive drugs are compromised.
Port Hole: Pharmacy-grade refrigerators feature an access port for CDC-compliant temperature monitoring system probes that allow you to track the status of your meds for better accuracy.
Keyed Door Lock: Pharmacy-grade refrigerators feature locks to provide additional security for high-value vaccines.
Check out our full inventory of medical-grade refrigerators, freezers and temperature monitoring accessories and find the perfect match for your medication storage needs!
Corepoint™ Scientific, a Horizon Scientific, Inc. brand, provides a full range of temperature-controlled equipment to our customers across the healthcare, laboratory and clinical research, pharmaceutical, and industrial segments. The extensive portfolio of quality products ranges from small capacity countertop refrigerators and freezers, including special purpose, application-specific models, as well as specialty upright models including Blood Bank Refrigerators and Plasma Freezers. Ensuring customer requirements are met, all products are designed in a variety of configurations, from general purpose cold storage to medical and pharmaceutical storage with stringent temperature performance requirements. The Corepoint™ Scientific advantage includes a comprehensive array of products and services to meet your temperature-controlled storage needs, an industry leading warranty, and many models are available from in-stock inventory and ready to ship.
• Dedicated Production Lines
• Experienced Customer Service Support
• Knowledgeable Technical Service and Support
• Logistics Solutions
• Sustainability – offering largest number of cooling options with Natural Refrigerants
• Sizes range from 1 cu. ft. – 72 cu. ft. capacity
• Undercounters & Countertops – with Built in & Freestanding options
• High Performance Uprights
• Blood Bank Refrigerators
• Sizes range from 1 cu. ft. – 72 cu. ft. capacity
• Undercounters & Countertops – with Built in & Freestanding options
• High Performance Uprights
• Plasma Freezers
• Low Temperature options (-30°C, -40°C, & -86°C Ultra Low)
• Utilizes a stacked design for maximizing space
• Humidity Stability Test Chambers
• Temperature Test Chambers
• Ideal for stability testing, shelf life, package testing and accelerated aging for a variety of products and packaging
• Controlled Room Temperature Cabinets – temperature assurance for ambient medication storage
• Controlled Auto Defrost Freezers – patented technology provides convenient frost removal while maintaining “spike-free” temperature ranges
• Full range of sizes, 1 cu. ft. – 72 cu. ft., to meet all capacity needs
• Precise temperature control for storage of critical vaccines and samples
• Data-logging and temperature monitoring solutions available
• Most models utilize environmentally friendly, natural Hydrocarbon refrigerants
• Low global warming potential and zero ozone depletion
• Energy efficient design lowers operating costs
• ADA compliant and Energy Star Certified models available
• Audible and visual alarms with remote alarm capability
• Many models in stock and ready to ship
The Pharmacy500 is awarded to 500 pharmacy supply chain businesses and associations that significantly impacted dispensing pharmacies in the U.S. over the past year.
The following are complimentary benefits extended to Pharmacy500 companies and associations (coming this spring!)
Coldkeepers, LLC is the owner, inventor and exclusive manufacturer of the KoldToGo and Medtraveller brands of cold chain packaging.
Our product lines extend from retail thermal bags to ISTA Certified shipping liners. Coldkeepers is a one stop shop for any thermal packaging need.
Coldkeepers offers affordable proprietary solutions to maintain temperatures within 2-8c for 24, 48 and 72 hrs.
Our proprietary products are unparalleled in the industry! Coldkeepers’ is dedicated to offering affordable solutions with the highest quality, service and product performance available.
Coldkeepers, LLC serves America with innovative temperature-controlled packaging as well as engineering, design, and testing services. Our solutions are the choice of leaders in a wide range of industries, and we offer special expertise in the Life-Science market.
Trust your fragile pharmaceuticals, volatile research materials, and sensitive specimens to Coldkeepers, LLC. We understand the challenges you face throughout the supply chain, and the urgency of meeting the highest standards.
We offer ready engineered solutions which are already pre-qualified, saving you the time and cost of lengthy development projects.
By adhering to ISTA Standard 7E, Coldkeepers is able to provide their clients with a level of assurance that their products will arrive at their destination in optimal condition, regardless of the outside temperature. This is especially important for products that are sensitive to temperature fluctuations, such as vaccines, biologics, and other pharmaceuticals.
Our Cubes – 1 inch Polyurethane One-Piece shipping Liner – will keep your temperature sensitive products at the right temperature for 36 hours. They are third party ISTA lab tested and certified. We can help you design a custom pack-out to insure your products arrive without thermal damage. We can also provide liners for 48, 60 and 72 hour shipments.
The Insulated Shipping Liners can be used in conjunction with gel packs or dry ice for shipments of products requiring to be kept at a preset temperature for extended periods of time.
1 inch Curbside Recyclable Paper One-Piece Thermal Insulated Liner
Utilizing postindustrial paper products, our Curbside Recyclable Paper One-Piece Thermal Liners are not only Certified Curbside Recyclable but also Repulpable.
Our flexible design allows the liners to ship flat to save freight and are suitable for shipments of ambient, fresh, refrigerated, and frozen products between 24 to 72 hours + (Use with gel packs or dry ice to extend transit times).
Feel free to reach out today to our sales and customer service team to learn more about this exciting new product line. Stock sizes range from 10 to 14 cube; custom sizes available upon request.
Our Extreme Mailers feature a 1 inch and ¾ inch thick open cell foam inner liner to achieve unsurpassed levels of thermal protection and transit time with a reduced footprint.
This product is great for short trip or whenever maintaining the cold chain of your prescription drugs is required by the manufacturer.
Our Kold-To-Go thermal insulated pouches with built in gel packs keep temperature sensitive products cold for hours without ice. They feature a double track zipper for ease of use.
Metallized outter film reflects 99% of radiant heat. Works great to keep insulin, vaccins, specimens cold for extended periods of time. Custom print available.
American Biotech Supply, a Horizon Scientific, Inc. brand, provides a full range of temperature-controlled equipment to our customers across the healthcare, laboratory and clinical research, pharmaceutical, and industrial segments. The extensive portfolio of quality products ranges from small capacity countertop refrigerators and freezers, including special purpose, application-specific models, as well as cryogenic freezers for long-term sample preservation. Ensuring customer requirements are met, all products are designed in a variety of configurations, from general purpose cold storage to medical and pharmaceutical storage with stringent temperature performance requirements. With over 25 years of experience, American Biotech Supply excels at quickly developing customer solutions at competitive price points while providing industry-leading service levels. The American Biotech Supply advantage includes a comprehensive array of products and services to meet your temperature-controlled storage needs, an industry leading warranty, and many models are available from in-stock inventory and ready to ship.
Your One Stop Shop for Cold Storage Solutions including:
Our Portfolio of Medical Grade Cold Storage Equipment includes:
ABS Cold Storage Product Line Highlights:
Rees Scientific specializes in protecting your valuable assets. Since 1982, Rees Scientific has been the industry standard for automated temperature monitoring. We offer continuous monitoring, centralized data collection, and simplified reporting. Monitor critical parameters such as temperature, humidity, differential Pressure, light control, etc. in vital equipment such as stability chambers, LN2 tanks, refrigerators, freezers, ultra-low freezers, incubators, etc. A single system can monitor a diverse facility with multiple locations while providing instant data access and sophisticated analysis right from your desktop computer, tablet or smartphone. Alarm notifications can be sent through telephone, text messages as well as e-mail.
View sensor conditions of your unit right from the Rees Scientific LCD display module. Ideal for pharmacies that house vaccines in their refrigerators. Monitoring temperature of vaccines is a crucial task that is regulated by many different government health organizations. The Rees Scientific LCD module complies with the guidelines of vaccines storage and handling from CDC, NIH, NIST, AAP, and PHAC.
Our LPA Cloud WiFi kits are a simple and economical way to monitor temperature in critical equipment such as refrigerators and freezers. The system will alarm out and notify when the temperature of a refrigerator or freezer fluctuates out of a given range. It is an ideal solution for laboratories, pharmacies, health clinics(Vaccine Temperature Monitoring) and food stores. Along with temperature, LPA Wireless also provides humidity and differential pressure sensors that help you become compliant with USP 797 regulatory requirements.
ReesCloud is an optimal asset that provides a secure, fast and easy way to continuously monitor your critical equipment and environment conditions. Features include:
Today, we continue to lead the field, taking cues from our clients and their environmental challenges. We ensure that your critical equipment and devices are monitored and maintained to set a standard every day without exception and without fail. Rees Scientific will continue to build products and services that help provide resolutions for our customers. Our goal is to be a quality provider of systems, services and solutions for our clients.
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RXinsider’s Pharmacy500 Stock ETF is a stock portfolio comprised of the largest publicly traded companies in the Pharmacy500.
This report offers a concise snapshot of the Pharmacy500 companies by highlighting new company additions, and examining regional distributions, practice settings, supply chain categories, and the key conferences attended.
B Medical Systems
Cardinal Health
Care Services, LLC
CaryHealth
Cold Chain Technologies
Coldkeepers
Datarithm
Datascan Pharmacy, Inc.
MAXQ
Mideast Delivery Solutions
Nimble
Nordic Cold Chain Solutions
Optum, Inc.
ParcelShield
Phox Health, Inc.
RedSail Technologies, LLC
Rx2Go
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