FALLS CHURCH, Va., April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council will sponsor its 12th annual National Symposium on Patient Compliance May 4-5, 2004, at the Hyatt Regency at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, PA, and will feature presentations on improving patient compliance, implementation of the FDA's new bar code requirements, and methods to deter pharmaceutical counterfeiting.
Highlighting the opening day's program will be presentation of preliminary results from a study by the Ohio State University that points to the HCPC's long-held contention that unit dose packaging significantly aids in improving pharmaceutical compliance. Participants in this three-year study have already exhibited a 60 percent higher refill rate when using compliance-prompting packages for their anti-hypertensive medications. More importantly, the study group patients using compliance packaging have also shown marked decreases in blood pressure rates.
In addition to the technical sessions, the 2004 Symposium program also includes presentation of the HCPC's Compliance Package of the Year award, and a unique tabletop exhibition session of compliance packaging suppliers, converters and designers.
The following presentations will be offered at the HCPC's 2004 Symposium:
* "An Overview of the Pharmaceutical Noncompliance Problem, Scope and
Impact in the U.S. and the World," Peter G. Mayberry, Executive
Director, Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council
* "Preliminary Findings: Ohio State University Study on Packaging and
Compliance," Philip J. Schneider, Director, Latiolais Leadership
Program, College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University
* "Consumerized Pharmaceutical Packaging -- Recent Data on Consumer
Preferences," Wal-Mart
* "Cardiovascular Drug Compliance and its Link between Adherence to
Evidence-Based Medications and its Effects on Mortality in Various
Cardiovascular Populations," Eva Kline-Rogers, Manager, Michigan
Cardiovascular Outcomes Research and Reporting Program
* "FDA's New Bar Code Requirements," Philip Chao, Office of Policy and
Planning, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug
Administration
* "Panel Discussion: Current Trends in Unit Dose Packaging," Board of
Directors of the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council representing
Cardinal Health, Honeywell, Uhlmann Packaging Systems, Sharp, American
Health Packaging, and Anderson Packaging
* "The Origins and Recommendations of FDA's Anti-Counterfeit Drug Task
Force," Paul Rudolf, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Ant-Counterfeit
Drug Task Force
* "RFID Technologies as a Means of Counterfeit Deterrence," Tom Sharfeld,
Auto-ID Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* "HDMA Product Safety Task Force Recommendations for Deterring
Distribution of Counterfeit Drugs," Brian Bruzek, Supply Chain Processes
and Technology, Healthcare Distribution Management Association
The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council is a not-for-profit trade association established in 1990 to promote the many advantages of unit dose blister and strip packaging, including the pharmaceutical compliance benefit with which these packages can be designed.
For more information and complete registration details, contact Kathleen Hemming, 703/538-4030 or visit http://www.unitdose.org/.
Healthcare Compliance Packaging CouncilCONTACT: Kathleen Hemming of the Healthcare Compliance PackagingCouncil, +1-703-538-4030
Web site: http://www.unitdose.org/
