Patient Compliance

Articles examine package design, child-resistance, senior-friendly, and tamper-evident features, as well as the materials and machinery used to develop packages that assist patient adherance to prescribed medicine regimens.

Financial incentives to encourage patient compliance

Noncompliant patients are adding to healthcare costs. Recent reports look to address that issue by paying patients to take their meds and comply with treatment regimens....

Patient Compliance | July 21, 2010

Drug delivery device developments

Film strips, electrical current, silicon particles, and gold nanorods: Futuristic drug delivery methods are in use or in development today....

Medical devices | June 17, 2010

New frontier emerging in use of packaging to differentiate pharmaceuticals

The time has come to view packaging as more than just a container, but a value-added element that can improve patient outcomes and offer on-shelf differentiation for pharmaceutical manufacturers....

Patient Compliance | June 16, 2010

Nurse medication errors and the role of packaging

Sixty percent of nurses polled identified look-a-like drugs and packaging as the sixth-leading cause of medication errors....

Patient Compliance | June 14, 2010

Video: Pharmaceutical adherence packaging machines

• third-generation pharmaceutical Blister Card Folder/Wallet Card machines emphasize modular stations and devices for flexibility and product changeover • available at speeds up to 300 packs/min, producing pharmaceutical wallet cards or assembly and folding of heat-sealed cards with field- or...

Thermoforming and blister manufacturing | May 20, 2010

HCPC announces Packages of the Year

Four packages earn honors at the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council’s 18th Annual National Symposium on Patient Compliance....

Patient Compliance | May 10, 2010

Healthcare reform could boost use of compliance-prompting packaging

The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council’s Symposium honors Pfizer, Anderson Packaging with its 2009 Package of the Year Award....

Patient Compliance | May 6, 2010

Keeping an eye on OTC switch developments

Switches from Rx to OTC flourish despite global recession. Companies are setting up OTC divisions, as non-medical products, regulatory changes benefit OTC sales....

Pharmaceuticals and biologics | April 28, 2010

HCPC revamps Web site, logo; symposium set for May 5

Adopting compliance-prompting packaging to improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs is job one for the council....

Patient Compliance | April 27, 2010

Will you still need me when I’m 64?

My hat’s off to HealthPack 2010 for again including the input of nurses in evaluating medical device packages in a session called “The Voice of the Customer.”...

Patient Compliance | April 15, 2010

Expanded oral dispenser print option

• provides finer graduations on oral dispensers for more precise liquid dispensing or dosing applications • complements current print options typically used in measuring OTC medications; complies with ISO 7886-1:1993 (E) for delivered volumes • stock fine print calibrations offered...

Ampules, vials, syringes and tubes | March 19, 2010

Video report: Aging population adds to packaging costs, complicates sustainability

Seniors with strength and vision limitations may require larger, more costly packages that use more packaging. Those challenges provide opportunities for the packaging community....

Patient Compliance | March 10, 2010

Multidose eyedropper

• Novelia™ multidose, preservative-free eyedropper calibrates droplets to improve patient compliance • is compatible with existing filling lines; handles a wide range of drug viscosities • made of standard eyedropper bottle, with a one-way valve nozzle to prevent contamination in...

Ampules, vials, syringes and tubes | March 8, 2010

Applaud efforts for innovative packaging that benefits patients

To increase patient compliance, there’s a pill vial cap with a timer, a pill bottle that flashes orange and plays a melody, and a pill with a sensor chip that works with a cell phone. All demonstrate that innovation is...

Patient Compliance | February 25, 2010

Pediatric packaging design seeks medication compliance for kids

Children can and should be included as a partner in their healthcare, says Jean-Marc Aiache, emeritus professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, Clermont-Ferrand, France....

Patient Compliance | February 3, 2010

Pharmapack announces 2010 award winners

Healthcare Packaging Publisher Jim Chrzan reports live from Paris, France, where the Pharmapack Awards 2010 were presented today for innovations in safety and compliance, in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and veterinary packaging....

Pharmaceuticals and biologics | February 2, 2010

Just a spoonful of medicine? Not so fast…

During the recent holiday season our teenage daughter Cassie was diagnosed with strep throat....

Patient Compliance | January 19, 2010

Sneaking a peak into futuristic device developments

If you think 2010 sounds futuristic, wait until you hear about these medical device developments....

Medical devices | December 31, 2009

Blister-card compliance package

• traditional fold-over, heat-seal Key-Pak® Blister Card is approved to be F=1 child-resistant, and is senior-friendly • push-through pull-tab indicator helps to reduce dosing errors; “zipper” design allows for simple removal of the rear blister-card panel and provide damage-free product...

Blisters, clamshells, Trays | December 29, 2009

Crestor closer to expanded use

FDA advisory committee voted 12 to 4 (one abstaining) to broaden use of cholesterol-lowering Crestor to people with normal cholesterol and no history of heart disease....

FDA, regulatory and legal | December 21, 2009

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