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The crux of the issue is that hospitals need to improve the intelligence around their medications at an increasingly precise level.
Whether it be requirements of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) or tracking opioids, tracking bulk packaging is no longer sufficient.
When medications are efficiently tracked from manufacturer to hospital to patient, it’s a win for everyone.
In a signal indicating the importance of the issue, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) initiated a pilot program to gather data on best practices for emerging technologies to solve the problem of medication mismanagement.
Barcoding and manual counting are the two main methods hospitals use to keep track of the circulation of drugs and controlled substances.
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tagging is a track-and-trace technology that is transforming medication management.
When a pharmacist needs to replenish the inventory, the RFID technology helps them locate specific medications, like those in a recall situation, instantly.
Additionally, research conducted by the World Health Organization (via CNBC) estimates that thousands of deaths per year are attributed to counterfeit drugs entering global supply chains, particularly in developing countries.
As the federal government and state systems attempt to control the opioid epidemic, proper track-and-trace solutions in the drug supply chain are at the top of the agenda.
This act requires full implementation of an interoperable track-and-trace system within the U.S. drug supply chain by 2023.
One pilot explores RFID as an alternative to 2-D barcode tracking and enhanced requirements for package-level tracing and verification.
Different supply chain participants are exploring different issues in tracking medications, including saleable returns, how blockchain may help and what data carriers may be useful.
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