Brand & Product Security

In the fourth part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Sean O’Hearen, founder and principal consultant at 1st Line Partners, describes the prominence of underreporting falsified medicines.

In the third part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Sean O’Hearen, founder and principal consultant at 1st Line Partners, recommends regulatory or verification mechanisms that can help safely legitimize online medicine procurement.

In the second part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Sean O’Hearen, founder and principal consultant at 1st Line Partners, explains how the private sector should strategically support and scale efforts to ensure that HCPs globally receive substandard and falsified medicine detection training.

In the first part of his Pharma Commerce video interview, Sean O’Hearen, founder and principal consultant at 1st Line Partners, lays out the systemic gaps in medical and pharmacy education that need to be addressed, along with how academic and clinical institutions can accelerate awareness training in identifying substandard and falsified medicines.

In the first part of this roundtable discussion, a panel of subject matter experts introduce themselves, while discussing the strategies that are most effective in ensuring resilience across the global supply chain.

Healthcare providers must enhance awareness of counterfeit medicines to protect patients, especially as online drug purchases rise.

In the third part of her Pharma Commerce video interview, Kirsten Newquist, Identiv’s CEO, shares the ways in which regulations, including DSCSA, are impacting the adoption of smarter packaging technologies across the industry.

In the first part of her Pharma Commerce video interview, Kirsten Newquist, Identiv’s CEO, defines the term, and explains how it is helping to combat the growing threat of counterfeit drugs in today’s global supply chain.

This serialization system represents a business imperative that yields significant competitive advantages.

In the third part of his video interview with Pharma Commerce Editor Nicholas Saraceno, Jody Hatcher, CEO of Morris & Dickson and chair of HDA’s board of directors, comments on the steps needed to achieve Drug Supply Chain Security Act compliance.

When delays and disruptions threaten not only product integrity but patient well-being, thorough risk assessment and mitigation are essential.

Why taking proactive steps—and combing the right data sources—is critical to informed decision-making in risk management.

Ensuring that essential treatments reach patients safely and efficiently is an increasing imperative in today's pharma landscape.

In the third part of her video interview with Pharma Commerce Editor Nicholas Saraceno, Laura Johnson, senior director of sales, life sciences, Loftware, discusses why the demand for supply chain transparency is continuing to gain momentum, while also explaining the role that track-and-trace initiatives are playing in that effort.

Introducing a new Pharma Commerce column focused on combating illicit trade and protecting product integrity—and ultimately patients.

Despite challenges surrounding communication overload, drug shortages, and cybersecurity risks, this term is revolutionizing medication management and patient care through the use artificial intelligence and predictive forecasting.

The program intends to address supply chain challenges surrounding product safety, traceability, and counterfeiting.

In the final part of this roundtable discussion, a panel of subject matter experts discuss what the future holds for this technology, why end-to-end visibility is necessary in healthcare, and the opportunities for greater RFID adoption that lie ahead.

The Drug Supply Chain Security Act was a major coverage area for Pharma Commerce in 2024.

In the final part of his video interview with Pharma Commerce Editor Nicholas Saraceno, Joe Lipari, director of product management, Systech, predicts the probability that these DSCSA compliance deadlines put forth by the FDA will be met.

In the second part of his video interview with Pharma Commerce Editor Nicholas Saraceno, Joe Lipari, director of product management, Systech, comments on what the repercussions are for failing to comply with the DSCSA.

In the first part of his video interview with Pharma Commerce Editor Nicholas Saraceno, Joe Lipari, director of product management, Systech, describes the latest state of DSCSA implementation guidelines.

In the second part of this roundtable discussion, key opinion leaders discuss the potential technological challenges surrounding RFID, and the likelihood of not only utilizing this tech at the item level but for product security purposes as well.

In the first part of this roundtable discussion, a panel of subject matter experts introduce themselves, while discussing why the pharma supply chain sees value in this technology and why its use has fluctuated over the past decade.

In the quest for achieving full traceability, the exemption applies to certain trading partners under the Act, and postpones enforcement of final compliance requirements while acknowledging progress and ongoing challenges.