Archive for the ‘Hospital’ Category
Friday, February 24th, 2012
FDA guidance and developing standards from ISO and AAMI/ANSI have shifted more attention to device and package designs that consider the needs of end-users and reduce the likelihood of human error.
At Cardinal Health, the usability of product and packaging is formally considered as human factors in design are captured and ...
Posted in Design, End-Users, Hospital, Labeling, Medical Devices, Pouches, Senior Friendly Packaging, Testing | Comments Off
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
In our daily newsletter today, we shared a report of a substantial payout in a court case involving contaminated propofol vials. A jury had ordered Teva Pharmaceuticals and Baxter Healthcare Corp. to pay $104 million to a 71-year-old patient and his wife after he contracted hepatitis C reportedly after being ...
Posted in Design, Drug Delivery, Hospital, Medical Errors, Safety, vials | 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 »
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
During a policy forum held today in Washington, DC, the Pew Health Group introduced its report, "After Heparin: Protecting Consumers from the Risks of Substandard and Counterfeit Drugs." Referring to the heparin-contamination case as a "wake-up call" to supply-chain risks, Allan Coukell, Pew's director of medical programs, said that while ...
Posted in Compliance Packaging, Counterfeiting, Diversion, FDA, Hospital, Imports, Inspection, Medical Devices, Medical Errors, Safety, security, serialization, standards, supply chain, Tampering, Theft | 1 Comment »
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 »
