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Die Verbesserung der Compliance ist für alle Medizinalpersonen und insbesondere für die Patienten eine alltägliche Herausforderung. Es gilt, die Notwendigkeit einer Therapie einzusehen, mit der Therapiewahl sich anfreunden zu können und dann einen Therapieplan in den Alltag integrieren zu können – allenfalls mit einer lebenslangen Dauer. Willentliche und unwillentliche Non Compliance sind häufig; Studien berichten von bis zu 50 %. Die Apotheker, als letztes Glied in der Versorgungskette, sind in bester Position um den Patienten nach Motivation, Kenntnissen und Hindernissen zu befragen und maßgeschneiderte technische und motivationale Hilfe zu leisten. Unverzichtbar ist die eingehende Anwendungsinstruktion bei der Abgabe, damit allfällige eingeschränkte Fertigkeiten (Geschicklichkeit, Sehvermögen, Kognition) erkannt und Hilfe angeboten werden kann. Eine Vielzahl von Hilfsmitteln sowie neue Technologien können gezielt eingesetzt werden um auch die langfristige Befolgung eines Therapieplanes zu gewährleisten.

Universities of Oxford and Cambridge study of "Feasibility and acceptability of electronic blister packaging to measure medication adherence in patients with type 2 diabetes in a long-term medication group"

Measurement of adherence by electronic blister packs was obtained from 94.3% of enrolled patients, and therefore Med-ic technology was found tobe feasible, and acceptable to patients. The study further concluded that "Electronic blister packs offer an alternative approach to MEMS containers for objective measurement of medication taking in a group of patients with a long-term condition."

Monitoring production environments, storage facilities and distribution processes has become an important part of current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) within the biopharmaceutical industry. The FDA and other regulatory bodies have shown increased scrutiny in these areas and require accurate measurement and documentation.

Blood products must be kept at precise temperatures during transport and storage in order to assure their efficacy and safety. To-date, the Log-ic Logger has been used in three different blood programs (USA, France, Canada) with 100% expected accuracy, read range, and data upload having been validated. Using probed loggers or special “antenna boosters”, all logged temperature data can be read up to 10 inches deep inside a urethane ice-filled blood shipping box, without having to remove the logger from the package!

Airlines serve millions of meals per month, making food safety a top priority for catering operations. After preparation and cooking, food is chilled to 5°C and must be maintained below 8°C until it is served to passengers on the airplane, usually within the same day.
That’s why many of the world’s top airlines are considering temperature monitors for their catering operations, with Log-ic being the natural choice due to its featherlight weight, wide temperature range and complete food-save waterproof pouch.

Every once in a while, a new "RFID Smart Blister" arrives on the scene, and the OtCM package from The Compliers Group in Netherlands is one such latest design. A new research study conducted by University Hospital Mainz in Germany found that, when testing another recently launched smart blister technology, only 82 out of 94 packages survived patient use and from those, just 80% to 95.7% of events accurately, or at all. Furthermore, these packages were tested by just removing 10 doses from the blister, presumably making the situation much worse had packages with 21, or 30 doses been tested in similar fashion.

Med-ic's 7-year experience with self-adhesive smart labels for medication blisters, and real-life, multi-year, multi-center clinical studies which demand an extremely high level of accuracy and reliability, has resulted in many designs yielding real-life package survival over 90 days in patients hands of better than 95%, and dose reporting accuracy of 99.6% or better, even with 14, 21, 30 and up to 42 doses per package. Med-ic smart labels are easy to apply, and are produced with non toxic conductive inks printed directly on paper labels.

Med-ic Blisters are designed to be better than 99.6% accurate in reporting dosing events, even when packages are handled in adverse, moist, or cold conditions. Validation data and references are available to qualified parties by contacting jwatters@med-ic.biz

Adherence to therapies is a primary determinant of treatment success. Poor adherence attenuates optimum clinical benefits and therefore reduces the overall effectiveness of health systems.

“Medicines will not work if you do not take them” — Medicines will not be effective if patients do not follow prescribed treatment, yet in developed countries only 50% of patients who suffer from chronic diseases adhere to treatment recommendations. In developing countries, when taken together with poor access to health care, lack of appropriate diagnosis and limited access to medicines, poor adherence is threatening to render futile any effort to tackle chronic conditions, such as diabetes, depression and HIV/AIDS.

What is HACCP? HACCP is the abbreviation for Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point. It refers to a systematic approach to food service preparation designed to focus on factors that can lead to food borne illness. The HACCP system will help reduce the risk of illness, related to food safety, from occurring in your establishment.

Temperature partly determines the concentration of oxygen in water. The solubility of oxygen decreases with increasing temperature, so excessive temperature can have a lethal effect on fish stocks. As the water temperature increases, the fish will require a larger quantity of food due to the increase in their metabolic rate.

Pharmaceuticals must be kept at controlled temperatures, and oftentimes have to be protected from freezing, kept in frozen conditions, or be stored at room temperature or in refrigerated (2-8) temperature conditions. Customers involved with production, shipment and storage of such products require detailed end-to-end proof that there have been no excursions outside the specified range.