Schreiner MediPharm (Oberschleißheim, Germany) offers a wide variety of smart blister packs for clinical trials. Now, thanks to the partnership with packaging specialist Keystone Folding Box Co., the expert for the pharmaceutical industry is extending its portfolio by a particularly child-resistant as well as senior-friendly solution. The use of integrated electronics turns blister packaging into a real time e-diary for capturing dosing history data.
LOPEC, the world’s leading exhibition and conference for flexible, organic and printed electronics, will be held in Munich from 5-7 March 2024. Under the focus topic of Smart Living, companies and researchers will show how printed electronics is making the health sector fit for the future.
Researchers from Fraunhofer IZM (Berlin, Germany), together with 31 partners from industry and research, have developed a stretchable and wireless patch that can be used to conduct diagnostically relevant cardiac monitoring in every-day life. This will reduce the number of in-patient examinations required for high-risk patients. It also boosts the semiconductor value chain for the medical sector in Europe through the development of new tools, methods and processes for series production.