Conference highlights RFID impact on pharmaceutical packaging and patient compliance
A revolutionary new concept, DDMS (Drug Delivery Management System), which applies radio frequency identification (RFID) to pharmaceutical blister packaging to improve patient compliance, will be presented at the forthcoming Pira conference 'Smart and Intelligent Packaging', which takes place on 28-29 October in Barcelona, Spain.
A revolutionary new concept, DDMS (Drug Delivery Management System), which applies radio frequency identification (RFID) to pharmaceutical blister packaging to improve patient compliance, will be presented at the forthcoming Pira conference 'Smart and Intelligent Packaging', which takes place on 28-29 October in Barcelona, Spain.
Mark Niemiec, president of DDMS Holdings, will describe the concept, which incorporates wireless RFID technology that allows 'real time' monitoring of drug compliance in any setting, including clinical trials, hospitals and at home. The DDMS concept links the rapidly developing technologies of printable circuits, low cost chips, portable readers and, if required, printable batteries. The technology is applied to blisterpacks and can monitor when a pill is removed from the unit dose cell.
The compliance data from the DDMS enhanced blisterpack can be communicated wirelessly from the reader to a website where the data can be accessed by those interested in the patient's health: for example, doctors, family members, clinical trial management companies or pharmaceutical companies.
The first major application of the DDMS technology will be clinical trials to improve the quality of compliance data collected from patients, and the second will be for drugs dispensed in hospitals and nursing homes to reduce medical mistakes.
Applications in smart and intelligent packaging are the focus of the two-day Pira event, which includes 20 presentations.