Archive for the ‘Compliance Packaging’ Category
Monday, March 19th, 2012
After counterfeit Avastin surfaced in February, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) reminded nurses, pharmacists, and doctors to remain vigilant when procuring and dispensing medications. Packaging and labeling play key roles in that vigilance. But do you give these professionals enough clues to go by?
In its March 8 newsletter, ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
Posted in Compliance Packaging, Counterfeiting, Diversion, Electronic Pedigrees, FDA, Handling, Hospital, Inspection, Medical Devices, Quality, Recalls | 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 ...
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Friday, June 24th, 2011
A study of patient refill behavior to be published this month in Clinical Therapeutics shows modest--but significant--adherence improvements in patients using calendar blister packaging (CBP).
A Pharmacoepidemiologic Analysis of the Impact of Calendar Packaging On Adherence to Self-Administered Medications for Long-Term Use reports on an analysis of pharmacy claims data from ...
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Chronic illness certainly takes a toll on families and finances (I know this from my own family), so I don't doubt these figures one bit: According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "treatment for people with chronic conditions accounts for more than 75% of the more than $2 trillion ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2011
A new study of patients in a community-based Medicaid program shows the benefit of a collaborative approach--one that involves packaging and personal outreach--for improving patients' persistence with their medications.
Reported in last month's The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy, the study evaluates the impact of Medicine-On-Time's medication management system on nursing ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
FDA released its strategic goals and long-term objectives yesterday, covering food, drugs, medical devices, biologics, animal drugs, and tobacco. To no surprise, its plan for protecting public health includes supply-chain issues:
Secure the global supply chain to ensure that drugs are being manufactured and distributed to conform to established quality standards.
Improve ...
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
As presenters at Pharmapack 2011 offered their perspectives on the larger trends driving package design, companies and exhibitors announced packaging innovations and improved delivery systems.
Attendees at the Paris venue learned of new bottle designs developed with consumer panels, intelligent blister packaging that underpins trials in telemedicine, and next generation nasal, ...
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
One World DMG (Warren, N.J.) is encouraging pharmaceutical companies to choose the company to design and manufacture a custom compliance package and promises to deliver an increase of at least 6% in sales or the design company will refund all design fees, tooling costs, and testing expenses. The confident packaging ...
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