The U.S. incurs an estimated loss of $300 billion due to poor medication adherence every year. Thankfully in the last 8 – 10 years CMS (the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) has been working to resolve this problem.

Systems address expanding global drug serialization requirements

This system allows pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to automate the case packing process and provide unit-level serialization, traceability and authentication for all of the products being case packed.

Never is safety and integrity of a product more necessary than when talking about pharmaceutical products.

Lately, the phrase pharmaceutical safety conjures up images of 2D bar codes, discussions of serialization and pedigree, 10 years of rolling implementation of the Federal Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) but pharmaceutical safety means something much more basic and, sadly, long overlooked.