In the pharmaceutical industry, Digital Twins are being used to combat product counterfeiting. They not only offer added value for the industry but also ensure greater patient safety. In this white paper we answer the questions about how exactly Digital Twins are used in the pharmaceutical industry and what we have learned from the implementation […]
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Analyzing, automating, data integrity, patient centricity, data mining, process optimization – Pharma 4.0 is versatile. But what is meant by this and why does digitalization still have room for improvement in the pharmaceutical industry? Pharma 4.0 is part of the Internet of Things (IoT). The term describes the part of the IoT that affects the […]
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Russia has been serializing since July 2020. The marking of Rx and OTC drugs with crypto codes is part of a large-scale track-and-trace project. It is intended to make an important contribution to greater patient and consumer safety in Russia. In addition to the safety aspect, however, economic interests are also in the foreground. Counterfeit […]
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Pharmaceutical companies specializing in the production of over-the-counter drugs (OTC) have not been affected by pharmaceutical serialization so far. This is now changing for companies that are also active on the Russian market. The serialization requirements in Russia are much more complex than those of the EU-FMD. The so-called EU Counterfeiting Directive has been in […]
The implementation of EU-FMD is not the only track&trace initiative to protect against counterfeit medicines. Many projects around the world are more or less based on similar standards but are all aimed at protecting patients and making supply chains counterfeit-proof. I.e. Russian Crypto-Codes and the serialization requirements in China. Russia and China are two countries […]
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Blockchain is to be used in the healthcare industry. The Federal Ministry of Health has launched a competition to find projects that will reduce the number of counterfeit prescriptions. The competition entries show that blockchain can be used in many ways in the healthcare sector. In the competition ideas and solutions were searched, which are […]
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Several weeks have already passed since the FMD came into force. The implementation of the directive poses a major challenge, especially for hospital pharmacies. Nevertheless, a practicable solution has not yet been found. Logistics experts and manufacturers have recently been asked to offer special hospital deliveries. Now tracekey provides them a solution – HX Secur […]
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The Ruhr area is to become a hotspot for B2B data and data-oriented start-ups – and it looks good, the current economic report shows that numerous people now work in the promising digital sector. In doing so, they also support the industry located in the Ruhr area. The Ruhr area currently has as many jobs […]
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The day of the Brexit – March 29 – is slowly approaching and there is still no regulated withdrawal insight. The pharmaceutical industry would be particularly affected by hard Brexit. Without regulated conditions and joint agreements, a complex situation would arise for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, which could even lead to supply bottlenecks. A […]
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Eleven days after the deadline for the implementation of the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), the first interim results are rather mixed. Many pharmacies in the UK and France are not connected at all, and in Germany, they are demanding that the additional costs be borne. The mood in Europe is very mixed just two weeks […]