New child-resistant smart blister wallet enables digital adherence monitoring | 12-12-2023 |
Schreiner MediPharm, which has developed a wide variety of smart blister packs for clinical trials, has partnered with pharmaceutical packaging specialist Keystone Folding Box Co., to extend its portfolio with a child-resistant, as well as a senior-friendly solution. The use of integrated electronics turns the blister packaging into a real time e-diary for capturing dosing history data, explains the company.
The partners have developed a smart extension for the proven Key-Pak® wallet, for oral solid dose medication, made by USA-based Keystone. The novel solution combines a child-resistant paperboard package with state-of-the-art technology for digital adherence monitoring, and is suitable for customization, they say.
Keystone is a leading company in the field of paperboard pharmaceutical packaging. Its Key-Pak® wallet card has become well established in clinical trials. To this wallet Schreiner MediPharm has added electronic functions for medication adherence monitoring, which offer numerous benefits.
The distinguishing characteristic of the smart wallet is the integration of conductive trace-patterns linked to each of the cavity locations on the wallet card. As a result, data is generated at the moment the patient removes a dose from the wallet. The details, such as time and date of dose removal and specific cavity location, are stored within the electronics inside the package and can be transmitted by means of NFC or Bluetooth technology for precise patient compliance tracking. There is also an option to send medication dosing reminders to patients and to adjust the therapy plan as needed. When used in combination with special software, central tracking as well as data documentation and analysis can be achieved, according to the partners.
This smart blister wallet is both child-resistant and senior-friendly. Ease of use by the patient, in terms of accessing each dose, is accomplished by a push-through safety feature which is a hallmark of the wallet design.
Pharmaceutical companies are provided with a flexible solution that can be customized to any clinical trial and its dosing scheme, such as number of cavities, blister arrangement and various tablet shapes. By enhancing data quality and optimizing processes, the smart blister package can shorten trial duration, thereby accelerating the approval process for new drugs, it is claimed.
In addition, Schreiner MediPharm ensures end-to-end automated production of the smart blister pack due to scalable state-of-the-art manufacturing processes. This innovative packaging solution increases efficiency and flexibility in clinical research settings and emphasizes patient safety and comfort, say the companies.
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