Temperature controlled and monitored distribution for vaccines and medicines

我们与一家大型药品分销公司和社区护士合作，确定了改善药品、测试样本、输血和疫苗的温控和监控分销的重大需求。最紧迫的是，我们已经确定了四个COVID-19特定问题，这些问题将影响英国，必须立即解决：1.当疫苗可用时，它们将需要温度控制的环境。英国的基础设施，以分发这些疫苗在这些卷是紧张的。手术室、药房和医院的制冷能力不足以处理预期的数量。也没有一个中央监测系统来监测这些冰箱中的疫苗和药品。地区和社区护士目前没有提供疫苗的温控设施。因此，未使用的疫苗在每天结束时销毁。这已经使NHS每年花费约400万英镑，并大大减少了可用疫苗的总数。为了迅速实施大规模免疫接种，可能需要在全国范围内驾车通过疫苗接种点。这些将需要制冷设施，而无法保证可靠的电力供应。eVc PowerTech正在创建一种低成本的医疗供应分配系统，该系统包括手持式冷藏手提箱，该手提箱包含真实的时间温度监测，以及对接系统，该对接系统将为手提箱供电，并在手提箱位于分配中心、车辆或药房时充当通信中心，全科医生手术或医院。我们的愿景是创建一个可在整个医疗保健行业使用的系统，用于安全运输和处理温控药物。通过Extension for Impact资金，我们将能够进一步开发跟踪软件，以提供完整的后端数据库和仪表板，使监督员和管理人员能够跟踪和监测其控制下或其分配系统内的疫苗。

Working with a major pharmaceutical distribution company and with community nurses, we have identified a significant need for improving temperature-controlled and monitored distribution for medicines, test samples, blood transfusions and vaccines.Most urgently, we have identified four COVID-19 specific issues that will impact the UK that must be addressed right now:1. When vaccines become available, they will require temperature-controlled environments. The UK's infrastructure to distribute these vaccines in these volumes is stretched.2. There is insufficient refrigeration capability at surgeries, pharmacies and hospitals to handle the anticipated volumes. Nor is there a central monitoring system for monitoring vaccines and medicines held in these refrigerators.3. District and community nurses currently have no temperature-controlled facilities for delivering vaccines. Unused vaccines are therefore destroyed at the end of each day. This already costs the NHS an estimated £4M annually and significantly reduces the overall number of vaccines available.4. To rapidly implement mass immunisation, drive through vaccination sites are likely to be required across the country. These will require refrigeration facilities where there is no guarantee of a reliable power supply.eVc PowerTech are creating a low cost medical supply distribution system comprising of hand-held refrigerated tote boxes that incorporate real time temperature monitoring, and a docking system that will power the totes and act as a communications hub when the totes are in a distribution centre, in a vehicle or at a pharmacy, GP surgery or hospital.Our vision is to create a system that can be used throughout the healthcare industry for the safe transportation and handling of temperature-controlled medicines.With Extension for Impact funding, we will be able to further develop the tracking software in order to provide a full back-end database and dashboards, allowing supervisors and managers to track and monitor vaccines under their control or within their distribution system.