CONNECTIVITY

INJECTION

THE NEW EMERGING NEEDS DRIVING AUTOINJECTOR DEVELOPMENT

Iain Simpson discusses the emerging needs to be considered when bringing new autoinjector drug-device combinations to market.

CONNECTIVITY

MEASURING & MANAGING MEDICATION ADHERENCE FROM CLINICAL TRIALS TO ROUTINE CARE: INJAY MEMS AS^®

Arnaud Guillet and Bernard Vrijens discuss the issue of medication non-adherence in both clinical trials and commercialised drug products, and how Biocorp’s Injay connected prefilled syringe solution combined with Aardex’s MEMS Adherence Software provides a solution.

CONNECTIVITY

Sheila Trgovac

Ximedica

HOW DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CAN TRANSFORM CLINICAL TRIALS

Sheila Trgovac and Rebecca Ford suggest that now is the time for innovation in clinical trials – using a patient-centric approach whilst leveraging digital solutions to create a digital clinical trial ecosystem.

WEARABLES

Tony Bedford

Phillips-Medisize

EMERGING TRENDS IN WEARABLE DRUG DELIVERY

Tony Bedford discusses the current state of the fledgling on-body injector market, including the difficulties of competing with autoinjectors in the <5 mL space, the potential on-body injectors have in oncology and Phillips-Medisize’s own developments in the on-body injector field.

EXPERT VIEW

Napoleon Monroe

COVID-19: A CATALYST FOR IMPLEMENTING CONNECTED HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS?

Napoleon Monroe analyses how COVID-19 is catalysing a wide range of reactions in healthcare, explaining how drug and device connectivity are essential to improving patient access to treatment – and patient outcomes – as well as reducing overall cost. 

CONNECTIVITY

John Merhige

Credence MedSystems

THE AWARD-WINNING CREDENCE CONNECT™ AUTO-SENSING INJECTION SYSTEM

John Merhige explains how connectivity that is universally applicable to any existing prefilled syringe platform adds value throughout the ecosystem, both including and beyond the “compliance business model”.

CONNECTIVITY

Marnik Vaes

SABIC

POLYMERIC EMI SHIELDING: PROVIDING A MORE SECURE FUTURE FOR PATIENTS

Marnik Vaes, Leen-Pieter Deurloo and Martin Sas discuss the role of polymeric electromagnetic interference shielding in providing a more secure future for patients in a connected world.

CONNECTIVITY

Gaël Senée

Biocorp

SENSORS ARE TOOLS – BUT HOW DO YOU MAKE THEM SMART?

Gaël Senée and Arnaud Guillet explore the benefits of Mallya – a smart sensor that turns conventional injection pens into connected devices. They also discuss the crucial role Biocorp’s connected prefilled syringe, Injay, could play in future COVID-19 vaccination programmes.

EXPERT VIEW

Tom Oakley

RISKS AND REAL-WORLD SOLUTIONS FOR CONNECTED MEDICAL DEVICES

Tom Oakley discusses the risks surrounding the use of connected drug delivery devices – and the real-world solutions that have either been proved or are being trialled.

CONNECTIVITY

Erin Miller

Noble

APPLYING CONNECTIVITY TO ENHANCE THE TRAINING STANDARD OF CARE FOR SELF-INJECTION

Erin Miller looks at how connectivity can be used to enhance training to help address the challenges of accuracy and non-adherence when patients self-inject their medications.

CONNECTIVITY

Chelsea Williams

SHL Medical

DIGITAL HEALTH REFORMULATION: FROM HOPE TO HYPE TO HEALTH

Chelsea Williams, Ramin Rafiei and Ralph Howald discuss the accelerating value of digital health to improve the patient experience, achieve improved health outcomes, and increase health system efficiency and value.

INTERVIEW

Sai Shankar

Aptar Pharma

INTERVIEW WITH SAI SHANKAR, ADAM SHAIN & MARCUS BATES

Sai Shankar, Adam Shain and Marcus Bates discuss the full potential of connectivity, coronavirus as a potential accelerator of adoption, and the place of connected drug delivery systems within Aptar Pharma’s broader offering to industry.

CONNECTIVITY

Beo Arana de Martinez

E3D – Elcam Drug Delivery Devices

MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF COVID-19

Beo Arana de Martinez and Ilan Shopen discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on patient populations, how the healthcare industry has intensified activity to fight the virus, and how connected devices that facilitate self-injection and remote monitoring are coming into their own.

CONNECTIVITY

Neil Williams

Phillips-Medisize

UNLOCKING INSIGHT FOR PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAMMES

Neil Williams and Andrew Tubb discuss how insights delivered by a cloud-based connected health system help patient support programmes to monitor and improve medication adherence.

EXPERT VIEW

Dr Andrei Yosef

CONNECTED DEVICE DATA NEEDED TO MAKE HOME CARE THE STANDARD

With home care on the increase as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Andrei Yosef looks at the crucial role played by connected home care medical devices and the data they generate.

EARLY INSIGHT

Amber Witteman

EPIWatch

EPIWATCH: A NOVEL LIFE-SAVING MICRO AUTOINJECTOR IN A SMART WATCH

Amber Witteman, Thijs Roebers and Dirk-Jan Opstelten introduce the company’s patented innovation, a wearable autoinjector customised to fit the wrist.

VIDEO

Kevin Deane

Phillips-Medisize

Adding value to Drug Delivery with Connectivity

In this video presentation, Kevin Deane looks at how connectivity applied in drug delivery technologies can provide better solutions for patients and for industry and add value for all stakeholders.

INJECTION

Frederick Gertz

SHL Medical

ESTABLISHING DATA-DRIVEN DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING FOR MEDICAL DEVICES

Frederick Gertz explores the benefits for medical device design and manufacturing organisations of adapting to the use of big data and analytics.

EXPERT VIEW

Salvatore Forte

SENSOR ADVANCEMENTS IN DRUG DELIVERY IMPROVE COMPLIANCE

Salvatore Forte discusses various advancements in sensors that are transforming drug delivery systems, making complex devices more automated, easier to use, and improving patient compliance as a result.

COVID-19 NEWS

Joe Reynolds

Noble

Telemedicine gains acceptance amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Noble highlights how telemedicine is poised to become a mainstream alternative to the traditional in-person methods of care delivery, with the COVID-19 pandemic easing barriers to acceptance and introducing patients to the safety and convenience of telehealth technology.

WEARABLES

Dr Temitope Sodunke

BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)

ADDRESSING THE EVOLVING NEEDS OF VARIABLE DRUG DELIVERY REGIMENS

Temitope Sodunke introduces the BD Evolve™ On-body Injector and describes how the device is designed specifically to address the rapidly evolving needs of the pharma industry and meet patient requirements.

VIDEO

John Merhige

Credence MedSystems

VIDEO: Credence Connect from Credence MedSystems

Credence MedSystems takes us through the use steps of its new Credence Connect™ autosensing injection system, and smartphone app.

CONNECTIVITY

Rachel An

Quantex Arc

HOW TO DEVELOP A CUSTOMISED IOT PLATFORM WITH A RUNNING START

Do you need a drug delivery Internet of Things (IoT) platform across your entire portfolio of drugs that is agnostic to the type of source container, drug viscosity and the volume to be dispensed? Rachel An and Gillian Harding-Moore discuss how to develop such a platform with a running start.

CONNECTIVITY

Kelly Boyer

Colorcon

THE TRUSTED TABLET: A NEW LEVEL OF SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY FROM MASS DIGITALISATION OF MEDICINES

Kelly Boyer, Trent Lund and Barry McDough describe a means of mass digitalising medicines to address the problem of illegal and unauthorised production of pharmaceutical products in a meaningful way.

EARLY INSIGHT

Nick Rollings

BiologIC Technologies

A FLEXIBLE, MODULAR PLATFORM TO DISRUPT THE BLOCKBUSTER MANUFACTURING MODEL

Nick Rollings, Colin Barker and Richard Vellacott discuss the drug delivery scenario in the advanced therapy (AT) era, examining how the current slow-moving blockbuster treatment model is making way for a fast-moving, patient-focused era of personalised medicine

CONNECTIVITY

Neil Williams

Phillips-Medisize

NEXT-GENERATION CONNECTED DRUG DELIVERY SUPPORTS DATA LIQUIDITY & COST SAVINGS

Neil Williams discusses medication non-adherence, the toll it takes on the healthcare system and how integration, analytics and more affordable connectivity in drug delivery devices as part of a connected health ecosystem improves patient care and lowers costs.

CONNECTIVITY

Barbara Taylor

Portal Instruments

AN INJECTION OF CONNECTED NEEDLE-FREE INNOVATION

Barb Taylor discusses the next generation of needle-free injection devices, which incorporate connectivity.

EXPERT VIEW

Dr Ulrica Sehlstedt

TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE – HOW CURATIVE THERAPIES WILL DISRUPT THE MARKET

Ulrica Sehlstedt, Craig Wylie, Thomas Unger, Rebecka Axelsson Wadman, Vikas Kharbanda, and Satoshi Ohara, all members of Arthur D. Little’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice, explain how the shift to curative treatments promises to transform the entire healthcare ecosystem. 

CONNECTIVITY

Marcus Bates

Aptar Pharma

THE CURRENT STATE OF PLAY IN CONNECTED DEVICES

Marcus Bates; Joachim Koerner and Jerôme Prraquin discuss the current state of play, what connected device advocates are doing to enable faster implementation, and how we can optimise connected technology while reducing the cost and improving human factors.

EXPERT VIEW

Dr Juan Nogueira

CHOOSING THE RIGHT CONNECTIVITY FOR DRUG DELIVERY AND MEDICAL PRODUCTS

Juan Nogueira; Tommaso Borghi and Marco Vergani discuss the factors that need to be taken into account in the selection of connectivity technology for a drug delivery device or other medical product.

CONNECTIVITY

Biocorp

PRODUCT SHOWCASE: Injay – Connected Prefilled Syringe

Biocorp presents Injay, the first prefilled syringe with built-in connectivity, providing a cost-effective and easy-to-implement solution that improves treatment adherence, upholds quality of reporting, and provides a secure treatment protocol and traceability.

EXPERT VIEW

Dr Matt Ash

HOW A DIGITAL APPROACH CAN UNPICK CLINICAL TRIAL CHALLENGES AND IMPROVE OUTCOMES

Matt Ash, Tom Lawrie-Fussey and Bastiaan De Leeuw look at the role digital technology can play in the development of drug-device combination products.

INJECTION

Orfeo Niedermann

Ypsomed

SUCCESS FACTORS FOR THE YPSOMATE FAMILY OF AUTOINJECTORS

Orfeo Niedermann looks at the key factors behind the growth and continued success of the YpsoMate family of two-step autoinjectors. He also introduces YpsoMate Design, which enables freeform outer shell design around the proven YpsoMate mechanism and manufacturing lines.

EXPERT VIEW

Napoleon Monroe

PATIENTS, MANUFACTURERS & PRACTITIONERS CAN LEAD ADOPTION OF CONNECTED COMBINATION PRODUCTS

Napoleon Monroe asks why connectivity has failed to advance rapidly, and argues that many stakeholders can benefit if the adoption of connectivity for drug delivery can be accelerated. While this article will centre on pharmaceutical combination products, the essential points also relate more broadly to pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

CONNECTIVITY

Dr Iain Simpson

Phillips-Medisize

HOW CONNECTIVITY ADDS VALUE TO INJECTABLE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICES

In the context of the growing shift in emphasis from improving adherence to the better outcomes that can arise from doing so, Iain Simpson discusses why connectivity is becoming increasingly important in injectable drug delivery, and how it can benefit patients, providers and pharmaceutical manufacturers.

CONNECTIVITY

Chantal Wierckx

Biocorp

ADDING VALUE TO PREFILLED SYRINGES: SAFETY AND CONNECTIVITY

Chantal Wierckx and Arnaud Guillet provide an update on Newguard™, Biocorp’s integrated safety device for prefilled syringes, and explore the possible advantages connectivity can bring in the context of traceability for anti-counterfeiting, in clinical trials and in vaccination campaigns.

EXPERT VIEW

Shaul Eitan

CUSTOMISED INFUSION PUMPS: THE FUTURE OF SELF-ADMINISTRATION?

Shaul Eitan explores the challenges of home infusion and examines how customisation and connectivity could help provide a solution.

CONNECTIVITY

Dr Andreas Schneider

Ypsomed

I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE: EYE TRACKING DRIVES PATIENT-CENTRED DEVELOPMENT OF CONNECTED SYSTEMS

The development of connected self-injection systems is driving industry to rethink its current approaches to patient-centred new product development. Andreas Schneider summarises a recent field study that used eye tracking for the formative usability testing of SmartPilot for YpsoMate.