Just a few years ago a former colleague scoffed at my enthusiasm about personalized medicine, predicting it was a good 20 years away. Yet scientific advances based largely around our growing understanding of the human genome are advancing the move to more individualized patient treatment. The question here: What does that mean for healthcare packagers?
A PharmaManufacturing.com article, "When manufacturing and packaging merge," notes, "Printing and packaging must follow suit and become a more seamless and integrated part of operations, able to change whenever the needs of the manufacturer or consumer change." That's a tough task considering that manufacturers have often invested big bucks into pharmaceutical packaging lines designed to produce in commercial volumes.
Flexibility on a plant-wide basis is the focus of another PharmaManufacturing.com story that also addresses the important matter of cost containment.
A PharmaManufacturing.com article, "When manufacturing and packaging merge," notes, "Printing and packaging must follow suit and become a more seamless and integrated part of operations, able to change whenever the needs of the manufacturer or consumer change." That's a tough task considering that manufacturers have often invested big bucks into pharmaceutical packaging lines designed to produce in commercial volumes.
Flexibility on a plant-wide basis is the focus of another PharmaManufacturing.com story that also addresses the important matter of cost containment.
![Alison Bryant, senior consultant at Antea Group and communications director for the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC), addressed the crowd at the[PACK]out.](https://img.healthcarepackaging.com/files/base/pmmi/all/image/2024/05/Alison_Bryant.6644005a513b0.png?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
