Temperature monitoring

At one point our institution required that the individual Point of Care Testing departments manually monitor their own Temperature/ Humidity (as needed) daily.  We had been using the Fisherbrand Traceable Thermometer/hygrometer that has a short term memory for recording extremes over the weekends/clinic closures.
 Any excursions or other deviations the teams also had to do their own investigation and write up the Corrective Action.  These logs were then reviewed once a month by the Point of Care Coordinator assigned to that location.  This proved to be a cheap but highly-noncompliant solution.  
To improve compliance and to get all departments on the same page we required all departments to purchase their own Lumity monitoring Device that was then connected to TempTrak.  The managers of the department are responsible for answering excursion/deviation alarms. Point of Care Coordinators monitor the temperature/humidity reads remotely and escalate any temperature fixes that need to happen.  We work with the managers and the departments to gather information about the excursions but it is on us to write the final Corrective Action and provide the guidance for temperature excursion fixes. 

we use an electronic system called Primex and not only are the sensors installed in all the fridges they are installed for room temperature/humidity monitoring in areas where POC supplies and instruments are located .