Compliance Packaging – The Future of Healthcare

Sari Hakli

Stora Enso Packaging
Carton Board, FI- 55800 Imatra, Finland
Tel: +358. 2046 22155   Fax: +358.

Email: Sari.Hakli@storaenso.com

Biography

Sari Häkli is Sales Manager for Stora Enso Digital Solutions. She has been with the company since 1988 working in sales and IT of Packaging Boards and most recently in pharmaceutical solutions sales.  In her current position Sari is responsible for sales and business development of digital solutions focusing to European market.  Sari holds Master’s Degree in Knowledge Management from the Technical University of Lappeenranta in Finland.

Company Profile

Stora Enso has years of expertise developing solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. These include high-quality packaging boards and award-winning packaging solutions which focus on improving compliance and patient adherence.

Our intelligent packaging solutions offer tools for compliance monitoring and temperature monitoring as well as electronic diary for medication and for collecting feedback on various occasions.

Stora Enso has also brought in the market pioneering solutions for digital print packaging. Stora Enso Gallop is an inline solution for digital print packaging, shortening lead times and providing the possibility to print variable data cost-effectively. The solution offers significant benefits such as on demand production and traceability and anti-counterfeiting measures.
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Abstract

As patient non-compliance with medication is a universal problem, it is vital to make taking the right medication at the right time as easy as possible. Effective unit dose packaging design can increase compliance, thereby helping patients achieve the maximum benefits from their prescribed medication.

Intelligent packaging solutions enable also monitoring of the patient compliance by providing. Intelligent pharmaceutical packages provide exact data on the patient adherence and persistence and new tools for medication monitoring and clinical trials. Intelligence can be embedded to the package itself or reminders and feedback entry can in the form of a separate electronic card. Intelligent packaging offers also a unique and cost-efficient system to measure and monitor the ambient temperature of transportation packages.

High end digital printing—or “print on demand” technology is starting to transform the packaging segment giving packaging converters the ability to respond rapidly to their customers’ needs, for short runs spurred by targeted marketing, increased regulatory and compliance requirements. Digital printing enables item-level product identification for tracking and tracing, as well as advanced anti-counterfeiting measures. Early adopters are enjoying the benefits with digital package production.