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Section: Design & Materials > Adherence/Delivery
Adherence/Delivery
New Packaging Breakthrough Reduces Medication Nonadherence
PackMyMeds organizes multiple medications into clearly labeled pouches by day, date, and time.
July 14, 2025
Some 75% majority of Americans struggle to take their medications as directed, according to the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Adherence/Delivery
Improving Self-Injection Delivery of Biologics Through Better Needle Choices
A recent webinar from BD shared important insights into patient fear and anxiety over self-injection and how the right device can ease it.
June 30, 2025
Claire Lageat, BD Clinical and Human Factors Specialist shared expert insights into how needle choice can impact the self-injection experience.
Adherence/Delivery
Addressing Medication Adherence Through Convenient Packaging
Amazon Pharmacy’s new iteration of its PillPack program has some industry professionals deliberating how packaging and delivery technologies can be most effective for patient care.
May 12, 2025
When enrolled in PillPack, customers receive monthly shipments of daily tear-away packets that are personalized and labeled with each medication (and its dosage) that identify a specific time and day of the week (with the calendar date included) for each medication to ensure proper organization of all meds.
Adherence/Delivery
Packaging’s Role in the Effective Use of At-Home Test Kits
At-home testing is growing and packaging plays a big role in helping customers use them correctly to ensure accurate results.
April 24, 2025
The pandemic normalized at-home testing but also spurred a broader consumer interest, across a wide demographic, in using at-home testing to explore different aspects of their health.
Adherence/Delivery
Digital Display Labels Set to Transform the Clinical Supply Chain
At the AIPIA & AWA Smart Packaging Congress, Merck and Johnson & Johnson discuss digital display labels, a promising technology poised to enhance clinical supply chains.
November 19, 2024
A prototype of a digital display label attached to a vial containing a drug for a clinical trial.
Adherence/Delivery
FDA Warning Letters in Packaging: How Testing Can Help Prevent a 483
While testing doesn’t always prevent an FDA warning letter, doing so helps you stay in compliance and check the boxes the FDA is looking for.
October 23, 2024
Inadequate control and management of packaging materials is often cited. Most of the citations from these types of issues are focused on poor testing practices that don’t ensure the materials demonstrate they can adequately protect the product prior to its use.
Sustainability
Sustainable Smart Packaging: Reducing Waste and Enhancing Medication Compliance
An overview of the technological advances shaping the industry.
October 17, 2024
Interactive packaging can involve QR codes or other tools that allow the patient to scan to learn more about the proper use of the medication.
Adherence/Delivery
Packaging Plays Key Role in Nasal Delivery of Dry Powder Biologics
Considering dry powder delivery for nasally inhaled drugs? Experts say it’s key to test and evaluate primary packaging at an early stage, because selections can impact final product performance.
April 29, 2024
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Nutraceuticals/Dietary
Anti-alcohol Flush Gummy Launches in Colorful Standup Pouch
New take on Alcohol Flush medication reaches the market through packaging testing and supply chain collaboration.
February 27, 2024
This anti-Alcohol Flush medication takes on a new form with colorful gummies--an easier way to combat Alcohol Flush symptoms.
Adherence/Delivery
2024 Challenges in User-Centered Design
A panel at Pharmapack discussed competing challenges in designing healthcare packaging and devices, where sustainability or anti-counterfeiting may be in conflict with simplicity for the user.
January 29, 2024
From left at Pharmapack Europe: Tom Oakley, Springboard; Aline Noizet, Digital Health Connector; Oliver Haferbeck, Gerresheimer; Eric Chanie, Merck; and James Fries, Rx-360.
Adherence/Delivery
Top 10 of 2023 - #6: CVS Pharmacy Launches Vitamin Dispenser that Opens with a Fingertip
Join us as we look back at the most-read Healthcare Packaging stories of 2023. At #6, the new CVS Health QuickServe Vitamin Dispensing System offers visual access to daily supplements in a reusable dispenser that delivers one pill at a time.
December 28, 2023
The consumer can quickly access a single vitamin by opening the door with a fingertip. The door features a divot for easy opening. (Image credit: CVS Pharmacy)
Adherence/Delivery
Top 10 of 2023 - #8: Human Factors Projects—Quick Wins and Practical Tips
Join us as we look back at the most-read Healthcare Packaging stories of 2023. At #8, a Roche engineer explains that not every package update requires a major redesign. Leveraging lo-fi prototypes can save time before usability studies.
December 26, 2023
Adding simple sun and moon illustrations and colored lines to a blister offer patients helpful cues for which pills to take in the morning and evening. Credit: Roche via Pharmapack Europe.
Adherence/Delivery
D2C Home Care Kit Diagnoses, Ease Upper Respiratory Conditions
Sniffles allows consumers to diagnose and treat cough, the common cold, flu, RSV, COVID, and other upper respiratory conditions from the comfort of home, or on the go.
November 21, 2023
Sniffles is designed for ease-of-use and includes a smart deep link QR code—sending users directly to an app vs. a website—that includes a discounted telehealth experience to encourage patient adherence.
Market Trends
Automated Prescription Filling Opportunities Open for OEMs
Automation opportunities are opening in the pharmaceutical industry through new trends in adherence packaging and blended central fill facilities.
November 17, 2023
Adherence packaging gaining popularity over the U.S.'s traditional countables is generating automation opportunity for OEMs.
Adherence/Delivery
Pharma Packaging Expert Warns Against TikTok Tic Tac Travel Hack
Pharmaceutical packaging firm Origin urges travelers not to adopt travel hack as popularized on social media platform.
August 23, 2023
Repackaging medicines for travel can result in serious holdups.
Materials
2023 Annual Package Design Gallery
Each year, Healthcare Packaging evaluates an array of over-the-counter product packaging designs, assessing the pros and cons from a user perspective.
July 12, 2023
Wonderbelly Packaging Design
Adherence/Delivery
CVS Pharmacy Launches Vitamin Dispenser that Opens with a Fingertip
The new CVS Health QuickServe Vitamin Dispensing System offers visual access to daily vitamins and supplements. Cartridges fit in a reusable dispenser that delivers one pill at a time without jamming.
June 6, 2023
CVS QuickServe Vitamin Dispenser
Materials
7 Health and Personal Care Packages Win FPA Awards
A common theme among the flexible packaging applications that earned recognition as 2023 Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) Award winners is their ability to strike a balance between eye-catching aesthetics and performance in product protection.
April 27, 2023
White Eclipse UV-Blocking Packaging from PAXXUS.
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