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、检测样本、输血和疫苗的温度控制和监测分销的重大需求。最紧迫的是，我们确定了四个将影响英国的COVID-19具体问题，必须立即解决：当疫苗可用时，它们将需要温度控制的环境。英国分发这些大量疫苗的基础设施已经不堪重负。手术室、药房和医院没有足够的冷藏能力来处理预期的数量。也没有一个中央监测系统来监测这些冰箱里的疫苗和药品。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被销毁。据估计，这已经使NHS每年花费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，可能需要在全国各地的疫苗接种点开展行动。这将需要在没有可靠电力供应保证的地方配备制冷设施。eVc PowerTech正在创造一种低成本的医疗供应分配系统，包括包含实时温度监测的手持式冷藏手提袋，以及一个对接系统，当手提袋在配送中心、车辆或药房、GP手术室或医院时，该系统将为手提袋供电并充当通信枢纽。我们的愿景是创建一个可用于整个医疗保健行业的系统，用于安全运输和处理温控药物。利用“扩大影响力”基金，我们将能够进一步开发跟踪软件，以便提供完整的后端数据库和仪表板，使主管和管理人员能够跟踪和监测其控制下或其分销系统内的疫苗。

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.