The Right Time?
-Daphne Allen
A few weeks ago, I wasn’t feeling too hopeful about the chances of automatic drug identification becoming routine in community hospitals any time soon. I had just finished visiting a relative in the hospital and had seen a bar coded unit-dose aspirin package discarded on the floor. Wow! I had thought. Did someone match the right drug to the right patient at the right time by the right route . . . ? More...
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Tracking & Tracing
Combining Track and Trace with Authentication
Protecting the pharmaceutical supply chain demands examination of several approaches.
Getting Started—On Multiple Fronts
Serializing your packages is truly a team approach.
Come Together
Successful, high-performance RFID-based serialization deployment relies on coordination with best-of-breed OEMs.
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Discovering New Capabilities for Packaging
Innovation in delivery systems addresses ease-of-use and precise dosing.
Finely Reading the Print
Variable printing creates a need for advanced bar-code verification.
Process Reliability through Qualification and Validation
Today’s packaging machines are built to help operators achieve process reliability; qualification packages simplify procedures.
Increasing Importance of DMFs for U.S. Exporters to Mexico
Proper submission and regular maintenance of Drug Master Files are gaining a new level of importance for any company that wants to successfully supply the Mexican pharma market.
A Hole in One
Want to fight counterfeiters and diverters? Put some holes in their approach.
Automating Order Fulfillment
A nutraceutical company changes from boxing to bagging, requiring investments in new equipment.
Research at Nerve-Central
We can save lives through package communication.
Green Is the Theme
Reduced energy use—but increased productivity—accompany a pharmaceutical distributor’s growth.
High Pressure Reading
Packagers and medical device manufacturers look for ways to cope with cost increases while maintaining barrier protection and product quality.
ePackage Newsletter
Choose Packaging, Not Trinkets, for Detailing Your Brand’s Benefits
A familiar means of promoting pharmaceutical brands now appears to be taboo. In revising its code of ethics on interactions with healthcare practitioners, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) is dissuading drug marketers from providing promotional items “that do not advance disease or treatment education.” In other words, no more “pens, note pads, mugs, and similar reminder items with company or product logos,” PhRMA explains. “Such noneducational items should not be offered to healthcare professionals or members of their staff.” Such is the case even if these items are accompanied by patient or physician educational materials.
