Counterfeit medicines have long been a topic with global implications, which countries are countering with legal regulations, among other things. Raw materials come from China or India, the subsidiaries are in Europe and the USA, and the drugs are distributed worldwide. Due to the global networking of the pharmaceutical industry, internationally active companies must comply […]
Update: Alert Management in the EU
Pharmaceutical companies are responsible when it comes to tracking and managing alerts on their products. […]
What is WBDL?
Hospital pharmacies are frequented quite differently from public pharmacies. In hospital pharmacies, large quantities of Rx drugs are delivered and distributed every day. This includes most of the drugs that are needed in daily hospital life. In connection with the requirements of the European Counterfeiting Directive (EU-FMD), this means that a large number of drugs […]
HospitalExpress: Fast solution for difficult times
It is not possible to predict today when the Corona crisis will come to an end. Particularly in the hospital sector, the crisis means a high additional workload for all employees. To counteract the lack of time and personnel, we have developed an express version of our HospitalDirect service, which relieves hospitals of at least […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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Successful 1st tracekey Customer Networking Event
On 11 September 2019, our first Customer Networking Event took place in Cologne. We are happy about this successful day with our customers, about many insights, constructive exchange, and a good atmosphere. Discussions, a lot of biscuits, insider knowledge, coffee, wraps, and a casual exchange – all this was our first customer day. Our goals […]
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Why our customers would recommend us
Based on the principle that good cooperation is always based on a constructive discussion culture, we asked our customers how satisfied they are with tracekey. Some of the questions were particularly important to us: How satisfied are they with our system in live operation and how will the EU-FMD be evaluated after the national systems […]
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 […]