The current landscape demands that healthcare administrators deploy holistic and technology-driven solutions for infection control, compliance, and environmental safety in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Integrated monitoring systems — especially those enhanced by AI and predictive analytics — provide the sophisticated capabilities required to meet regulatory guidelines, optimize workflows, and ensure the highest level of safety for patients, staff, and assets.
Morphing Infection Control and Healthcare Compliance Requirements
The ever-present focus of infection control and strong environmental integrity remains paramount within healthcare facilities. The implementation of differential pressure monitoring, coupled with temperature and humidity monitoring for air quality and temperature monitoring for asset storage, is critical to the management of airborne contaminants and ensuring that samples and medications are properly handled.
Here is what facility managers need to know:
Environmental Precision and Safety Through Room Pressure Monitoring
An essential step to control infection within a healthcare facility is to isolate contaminants. The use of negative-pressure isolation rooms is critical to preventing the escape of infectious pollutants from areas where patients are being treated. By creating air pressure differentials between isolation rooms and adjacent areas, airborne infections can be contained and mitigated. As air particles naturally flow from higher to lower pressure areas, the pressure difference between rooms prevents outward airflow.
The OneVue Sense® Differential Pressure solution effectively monitors air pressure to help minimize the spread of infection. The use of precise differential pressure technology provides assurance that airborne contaminants do not enter or escape a space and ensures your facility maintains compliance with infection control policies.
The critical nature of these isolation rooms means it is not enough to have only periodic check-ins to ensure differential pressure has remained consistent. Instead, automated differential pressure monitoring allows the consistent analysis of airflow, alerting hospital facility managers and caregivers when parameters fall out of range. This eliminates the need to dedicate additional resources to manually monitor the integrity of a room's conditioned environment, allowing crucial caregivers time to focus on patient care.
Temperature and Humidity Control for Environmental Integrity
In addition to monitoring differential pressure to ensure the efficacy of isolation and clean rooms, it is critical for facility managers to monitor temperature and humidity to maintain control of indoor air quality across the entire unit. The OneVue Sense Temperature and Humidity monitoring solution provides assurance that conditions meet environmental requirements for disease control, as well as staff and patient safety. This ensures that every area of a hospital is compliant with environmental best practices, keeping everyone safe both in and outside of isolation rooms.
Temperature Control for Critical Medications and Samples
In parallel with patient isolation and managing the environment to control disease spread, the proper storage of medications, laboratory samples, and vaccines plays a critical role in the treatment and elimination of infection. Temperature fluctuations can compromise the viability of samples or the efficacy of medications. Specific storage requirements must be maintained to support patient care and create effective outcomes of infection treatment. The OneVue Sense Temperature monitoring solution automatically logs storage conditions, records data and alerts staff to changes that are out of range.
Cloud-Based Software Platform for Data Viewing and Reporting
At the forefront of environmental monitoring solutions is the OneVue® software platform, which provides automated remote monitoring of all environmental data. As a comprehensive healthcare data solution, the system can be configured with ambient air temperature and humidity, differential pressure, storage unit temperature, water leak, and contact closure monitoring technology to meet infection control and regulatory compliance requirements.
OneVue solutions can be easily installed throughout a facility with minimal effort. The technology is designed to be portable and can be quickly removed for use in a different location if needed. Combined with the OneVue software platform, the system can be customized to capture relevant information, create targeted data reports, and send alert notifications to system administrators via call, text, or email.
Limiting disease spread throughout healthcare facilities is a constant need that requires precision tools and resources. OneVue Sense environmental monitoring by Primex has the technology you need to ensure your facility remains healthy and avoids widespread infection.
For additional information about how OneVue solutions can help your hospital or health system, contact us today.
Originally written and posted in June of 2020, this blog has been updated in September of 2025 to reflect current times and relevant information.
