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HCPC Announces 2016 Compliance Packages of the Year

Packages from Merck, Braeburn Pharmamceuticals and CVS earn honors by advancing compliance-prompting packaging to improve patient adherence and patient outcomes.

Merck’s ZepatierT Medication Package won the 2016 Compliance Package of the Year from the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council (HCPC).
Merck’s ZepatierT Medication Package won the 2016 Compliance Package of the Year from the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council (HCPC).

Merck’s ZepatierT Medication Package won the 2016 Compliance Package of the Year from the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council (HCPC).

The Zepatier package promotes patient medication adherence using a custom design that integrates a calendared blister clearly labeled by day on each individual pill cavity, highlighting the two-week dosing regimen (two of these two-week packages make up a monthly supply of Zepatier).

Visual cues prompt medication taking and tracking. A 5/6th panel provides space for medication information, dosing instructions, and how to navigate the calendar. In addition, branding for Merck/Zepatier is easily seen on the outer package’s readable, flat space. The package was done in coordination with WestRock.

“WestRock and Merck partnered to design the Zepatier package to help HCV patients adhere to their medication,” said John Grinnell, VP, Sales, Health, Beauty, & Adherence, WestRock. “Packaging is the one tool that stays with the patient throughout the medication journey, making it uniquely effective in providing regimen support.” WestRock’s enhanced adherence packaging is shown to achieve an 80% PDC with up to 37% more patients versus standard vials.

When reviewing, one judge said the package had a “very clearly explained regimen with an easy-to-read font type and size. The red color is used appropriately to emphasize important instructions. With clearly stated details printed on the inside of the fold-open package and arrows guiding the patient through each daily dose, the package encourages compliance by keeping the regimen as simple as possible.”

As part of its mission to improve patient adherence and outcomes through packaging, HCPC announced the winners at its RxAdherence2017, Strategies to Improve Outcomes conference May 2 in Florham Park, NJ.

HCPC’s Compliance Package of the Year competition has been an annual event since 1995 and recognizes the most innovative pharmaceutical packages designed to improve patient adherence for the preceding market year. In addition to recognizing innovative compliance packages commercially available, the HCPC encourages innovation and seeks to highlight inventive packaging designs to promote patient adherence with its Innovative Design category.

Additional winners this year included the following:

• 2016 HCPC Compliance Package of the Year First Runner Up: Braeburn Pharmamceuticals’ Probuphine Implant Kit, manufactured by Sharp Packaging Solutions

• 2016 HCPC Compliance Package of the Year Second Runner Up: CVS Store Brand OTC Compliance Pack

• 2016 HCPC Innovative Design Award: Med-ic® Syringe Pack equipped with Med-ic® ECM® (Electronic Compliance Monitor) Technology, submitted by Intelligent Devices SEZC Inc (IDI) for Information Mediary Corp.

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