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Why Are there Still so Many False Alarms in Germany?

One year after the launch of securPharm, several thousand false alarms still occur daily in Germany. What is the reason for this? The number of false alarms in Germany has already decreased significantly within one year. After the launch of securPharm, the false alarm rate was at 4.9 percent. In the meantime, it has dropped […]

One Year of Europe-wide Counterfeit Protection

Exactly one year ago to the day the anti-counterfeiting systems went live in Europe. We look back on the eventful and successful year 2019. Since February 2019, more than one billion drug packages have been given a unique digital identity – in Germany alone. More than six million scans are performed in pharmacies every day. […]

Whitepaper: Digital Twins in the Pharmaceutical Industry

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 […]

After Serialization: What Does Pharma 4.0 Mean?

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 […]

Serialization in Russia: More than just a security measure

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 […]

OTC Serialization is now also a topic

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 […]

Crypto-Code and language barriers: Serialization in Russia and China

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 […]

Blockchain: The future for healthcare in Germany?

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 […]

Pilot phase of our new product: HX Secur – Data delivery for hospitals made easy

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 […]

Digitalization pushes industry: Employment record in NRW

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 […]