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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently recognized additional Helmer Scientific products as meeting ENERGY STAR® energy efficiency requirements for High Performance Laboratory Refrigerators. New Helmer Scientific GX Solutions laboratory, pharmacy, and blood...

OptiCool™ technology in Helmer Scientific’s GX Cold Storage Solutions ensures temperature-sensitive blood therapies, clinical samples, reagents/controls, medications and vaccines are appropriately safeguarded. OptiCool™ is necessary to maintain patient safety, support...

Medical-grade refrigerators and freezers are used across clinical applications in acute and non-acute healthcare environments. These specialized cold storage units include special features to ensure proper performance for storage of sensitive, expensive, and sometimes...

Automation has increasingly been adopted in clinical laboratories and blood banks, providing alternatives to the traditional method of manual tube testing for pretransfusion testing. Pretransfusion testing techniques all have advantages and limitations; it is important to...

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) has implemented the Haemonetics® BloodTrack® Software System! The Haemonetics BloodTrack System is designed to improve efficiency and safety of storing and dispensing blood products at the point-of-care. This is...

Pharmacy Purchasing & Productsrecently released results from their 2018 refrigeration survey.  This survey contained feedback from 367 Directors of Pharmacy from US-based hospitals. The results of the survey indicate that hospital adoption of medical-grade refrigeration...

Maintaining appropriate temperature control of blood products is a critical priority for transfusion medicine clinicians. Great care is taken to ensure therapies are maintained at recommended temperatures through the use of specialized blood bank refrigerators designed to...

As part of Helmer Scientific's voluntary partnership with the EPA we are pleased to help bring attention to ENERGY STAR® through celebrating ENERGY STAR® Day. ENERGY STAR® Day is an annual event that promotes awareness of the program and encourages individuals and businesses to...

The U.S. Environmental Agency’s ENERGY STAR® program is a voluntary program that helps protect the climate through the use of energy efficient products. Within the past year, the ENERGY STAR program was expanded to allow testing and recognition of laboratory, pharmacy, and blood...

Full adoption of medical-grade refrigeration continues to be a priority for Hospital Pharmacists. Maintaining regulatory compliance for sensitive vaccines and medications, as well as ensuring patient safety, typically drives the decision to invest in medical-grade...