Archive for March, 2009

Mar 20th

Posted in Industry News

GS1 – Reduce Costs, Increase Efficiency & Improve Patient Safety

GS1 adoption is vital as life sciences and healthcare companies focus on reducing operating costs, increasing efficiency and improving patient safety.

Software companies are rising to the challenge as the life sciences and healthcare industries focus on reducing operating costs and increasing efficiency in these tough times.  Automating inventory management, labelling control and traceability are key areas in this quest.  But it all has to start with consistent identification standards. This effort is being under pinned by widespread adoption of the GS1 standards within these industries.  The news item below is yet another example of the backing that individual healthcare organisations are giving the GS1 standards.

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Mar 19th

Posted in Knowledge Base, Labeling Regulations

21 CFR Part 11 Labeling Systems

Everyone in the biotech and life sciences industries knows that 21 CFR Part 11 is not a new requirement ‘ it dates back to 1997, and has remained pretty much unchanged since then. Only its scope has changed.

Initially, the new requirement was widely ignored by both the industry and the FDA. This indifference was not intentional, but can be attributed to a pure lack of understanding by both the industry and the regulators. (more…)

Mar 19th

Posted in GS1, Knowledge Base, Labeling Regulations

What is GS1?

GS1 aims to improve efficiency and traceability through the supply chain
by providing a global system of identification and communication
standards. It is the most implemented supply chain standards system in
the world. (more…)

Mar 10th

Posted in Industry News

Counterfeit Drugs Penetrate Deeper

A recent European conference hosted by TOPRA, held to discuss the legislative changes outlined in the “Pharma Package” published by the European Commission on 10th December 2008 has outlined the deep penetration of counterfeit drugs within the pharmaceutical supply chain.

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Mar 4th

Posted in Events Calendar

Labeling Seminar Q&A Session

The following post is a transcript of the Q&A session held recently at the labeling seminar we hosted in Philidelphia on 20th February 2009. It’s a frank discussion between representatives from leading pharmaceutical companies and myself, Product Manager for PRISYM ID.

The topics covered include the following and focus around our web-based labeling product Prisym Medica:

  • Thick and thin clients for labeling solutions
  • How a web-based solution can augment an existing package
  • Client and server based printing
  • Software version control
  • Capturing customer label approvals through web-based software

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