Global Factories is a worldwide provider of medicine verification techniques. The company develops unique products to make personalised medicine distribution available for everyone. Its newest development is a multi-dose blister card that not only provides an overview of each patient’s medicine intake and stores the needed medication safely and easily per intake time, it helps the pharmacist, doctor and caretaker to monitor the medicine intakes of a patient by registering the intake times and dates.
This helps the patient to follow his/her medicine regime and will help to improve medication adherence. The new printed, rewritable memory labels cannot be copied. Behind the new blister cards are Thinfilm printed memory labels by Norwegian company, Thin Film Electronics.
Thinfilm Memory has previously been used for product verification, including retail shipments earlier this year for protection of luxury goods. Global Factories is the first to use Thinfilm memory in pharma security applications.
To do that, Global Factories is launching a new machine to pack and check these blister cards, which securely store patient medication and provide a visual blueprint of required daily intake. The Vandenbrink Blister Packaging Machine (VBM) will be launched during the first quarter of 2015.
The Thinfilm Memory labels will enable Global Factories clients to confirm authenticity of the VBM blister cards, ensuring only safe and qualified materials are used in the system. As well as packing and checking blister cards, the VBM uses a unique verification technique to further improve patient safety.
Additional Global Factories’ blister cards featuring Thinfilm memory label systems will be introduced to key global markets throughout 2015.
The VBM provides automated filling of Global Factories’ unit- and multi-dose blister cards, which securely store patient medication and provide a visual blueprint of required daily intake. The Thinfilm Memory labels will enable Global Factories clients to confirm authenticity of the VBM blister cards, ensuring only safe and qualified materials are used in the system. In addition to packing and checking of blister cards, the VBM uses a patented verification technique to further improve patient safety.
Davor Sutija, Thinfilm’s chief executive officer, commented, “The VBM system is a breakthrough in pharmaceutical packaging. In securing the authenticity of unit- and multi-dose blister cards for the VBM, we are contributing to a key milestone in pharmaceutical dispensing. Our printed electronics technology and manufacturing processes are able to deliver a cost-effective, highly scalable and easy-to-integrate solution for Global Factories.”
Richard van der Brink, chief executive officer of Global Factories, added, “Thinfilm Memory offers significant advantages over any other electronic verification solution we investigated, and gives us a highly secure label through the use of proprietary printed electronics technology. It’s a new solution which adds value to the needs of our clients all over the world, and represents the first step in our roadmap for using printed electronics in innovative systems to help improve overall patient adherence.”
