Though the principles of serialization are fairly straight forward, there’s more to serialization than just generating numbers. Especially in the tightly regulated and compliance-led world of pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Life Sciences News’ Category
Apr 6th
When serialization could be your answer to global anti-counterfeiting
The supply of counterfeit medicines and medical devices is a growing problem worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that up to 1% of medicines available in the developed world are likely to be counterfeit. This figure rises to 10% globally, although in some developing countries they estimate one third of medicines are counterfeit. (more…)
Mar 25th
The Oracle Life Sciences Forum (Geneva)
The fourth Oracle Life Sciences Forum, held in Geneva on the 16-17th March covered a broad range of subjects including clinical development & safety, manufacturing, distribution & operations, customer relationship management and collaboration & architecture. (more…)
Feb 16th
Pfizer study reports: European fake drug market is worth $14.3bn
The study reveals that $14.3 billion dollars worth of counterfeit drugs are sold yearly within Europe with Germany and Italy representing the majority of consumers
The survey asked around 14,000 people in 14 European countries (more…)
Jan 28th
Free Webinar: Reducing the Validation Merry-Go-Round
Any pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturer who does not use validated software, relies on costly manual and paper processes which may compromise the safety, quality and value of its products.
However, the software validation process can be extremely expensive and time consuming. Many companies employ full-time validation teams who are on a continuous global loop of validating and witnessing every computer system install and upgrade used in the production process – ‘the validation merry-go-round’. (more…)
Oct 7th
The Bar Code Celebrates its 57th Birthday!
7th October 2009 – is the anniversary of the first patent on the bar code. Inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed the patent on October 1949, and it was granted #2,612,994 on October 7, 1952. The original patent was for a system that would encode data in circles (a bulls eye pattern), so that it could be scanned in any direction and was first created for use on train carriages. (more…)
Jul 30th
How Efficient is Your Clinical Trial Supplies Labeling Operation?
The Centre for Business Intelligence’s 4th Clinical Supply Chain Management Conference taking place at the Hyatt Regency Princeton New Jersey today and tomorrow (30th and 31st July) will provide a forum for discussion on a variety of topics including labelling regulatory compliance, shipping requirements, and how to increase efficiency of labelling operations. (more…)
Jul 15th
Pharmaceutical Serialization – Meet the Challenge with PRISYMID and Oracle®
The pharmaceutical industry faces challenges in meeting the requirements for serialization coding, challenges that PRISYMID has been addressing for almost two decades. Our proven, robust and extensively deployed technology will meet your specific serialization requirements – no matter what manufacturing system, ERP solution or printing and vision technology you use on your production lines.
Mar 20th
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.
Mar 10th
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.
