Archive for the ‘Electronic Pedigrees’ Category
Friday, May 4th, 2012
The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has pulled together a broad swath of stakeholders for a workshop this month on the complexities of protecting the supply chain.
The May 22-23 event in Rockville, MD will feature regulatory officials from Europe, South American, and Africa, and coverage of developing track-and-trace standards, among other ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Optel Vision is kicking off a three-month series of webinars on track and trace and serialization, featuring case studies on industry implementations.
Three sessions will cover an introduction to track and trace, real use cases, and challenges in implementing serialization. Presented by Jean Pierre Allard, Optel Vision's serialization solution manager, each ...
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Monday, December 19th, 2011
The United States Pharmacopeia is placing supply chain security at the forefront with a new general chapter on best practices for ensuring supply chain integrity and protecting consumers from poor quality and counterfeit medicines.
USP General Chapter <1083>, Good Distribution Practices-Supply Chain Integrity, with the recently published USP General Chapter <1079>, ...
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
If pharmaceutical electronic pedigrees and track and trace are on your radar, December will be a busy month for you. California's State Board of Pharmacy (CA BoP) has announced that it will discuss implementation of the state's electronic pedigree requirements during its board meeting on December 6. In addition, GS1 ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has surveyed pharmacists and purchasing agents on drug shortages and the "gray" market again, and the bad news is that we could have just reposted our blog on last year's survey and been just as timely. Hospitals continue to struggle with drug shortages, ...
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
GS1 Healthcare standards are gaining traction. As the latest country to support GS1, India has called for serialized codes following GS1 data formats for exported pharmaceuticals. Most of the top pharmaceutical and medical device companies, wholesalers, and many hospital systems in the US have embraced GS1 Healthcare’s system for product ...
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
The medical device industry is anticipating publication of FDA's proposed rule on unique device identification (UDI) in the first quarter. Then follows a one year review period, after which manufacturers will implement the finalized regulation to a time table based on product risk classes.
The agency will require the coding of ...
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Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices recently surveyed pharmacists and other healthcare practitioners about drug shortages, and the results are startling. These shortages often put patients at risk as they wait for needed doses, or they are given alternatives that could present a whole new set of risks.
The survey spawned ...
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Friday, September 24th, 2010
This Saturday (September 25) is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, and the Drug Enforcement Administration has organized collections at more than 3400 sites nationwide. The event is intended to give patients a safe means of disposing of unwanted drugs that minimizes the risk of those drugs reappearing in the ...
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
We recently surveyed our readers in our annual salary survey, and many of them referred to the supply chain as a global one, like it or not. (Many, of course, are worried about losing jobs to other countries, but there may be some good news for them on that front.)
Fears ...
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