Archive for the ‘Handling’ Category
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Packagers are under enormous pressure to reduce production costs without compromising product quality.
Through upgrades in packaging machinery technology, peripheral equipment, and processes, manufacturers can improve production line efficiencies and reduce the errors that lead to product recalls and put consumers and patients at risk.
Approaches for improving packaging line performance and ...
Posted in Design, Handling, Labeling, machinery, Quality, Sustainability | No Comments »
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>, ...
Posted in Bar Coding, Cold Chain, Counterfeiting, Diversion, Electronic Pedigrees, FDA, Handling, Hospital, Imports, Inspection, Internet, Outsourcing, Reimportation, RFID, Safety, security, serialization, standards, supply chain, Tampering, Theft, Transporation | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
A first concern of nurses is avoiding contaminating the inside of sterile packaging when devices are flipped to a sterile field or handed off to the scrub nurse.
At the Healthcare Packaging Immersion Experience organized by Michigan State University and Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging, Tony Trier, a masters degree candidate at the ...
Posted in Compliance Packaging, Counterfeiting, Design, End-Users, Handling, Hospital, Medical Devices, Medical Errors, Pouches, Quality, Safety, security, standards | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Doctors and nurses are often tripped up by product packaging and labeling, putting patients and themselves at risk, warns Dr. John Gosbee, Human Factors Engineering & Healthcare Specialist at Red Forest Consulting and University of Michigan Health System.
Gosbee spoke at the Healthcare Packaging Immersion Experience, organized by Michigan State University’s ...
Posted in Design, End-Users, Handling, Hospital, Labeling, Medical Devices, Medical Errors, Package Inserts, Printing and Coding, Safety | No Comments »
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, ...
Posted in Compliance Packaging, Counterfeiting, Diversion, Electronic Pedigrees, FDA, Handling, Hospital, Inspection, Medical Devices, Quality, Recalls | No Comments »
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
The role of a paramedic is to stabilize a patient in an emergency situation. Seconds count---so ask yourselves this question: Does your package ease emergency care, or get in its way?
In just a couple weeks (October 5-6), Michigan State University (MSU) and Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging will offer the chance to ...
Posted in Drug Delivery, End-Users, Handling, Hospital, Medical Devices, Medical Errors, Safety | No Comments »
Monday, July 18th, 2011
We hope you were able to tune in to our Webcast, "Trends in Orthopedic Device Packaging." We thank our speakers Rod Patch, Sarah Grare, and Scott Hall for their efforts, our sponsors Beacon Converters, Multivac, Plastic Ingenuity, and Rollprint Packaging Products for supporting the event, and you, the audience, for ...
Posted in FDA, Handling, Hospital, Medical Devices | No Comments »
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
This October 5-6, Michigan State University (MSU) and Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging will once again host the Healthcare Packaging Immersion Experience (HcPIE), a unique program that simulates healthcare practitioners' experiences as they interact with packaging. In this year's program, attendees will be able to witness package use during simulated ambulance ...
Posted in Bar Coding, Drug Delivery, Handling, Hospital, Medical Errors, Pouches, Safety, serialization, Transporation | 1 Comment »
