Enhancing Quality And Efficiency Through Digitized Clinical Secondary Packaging Processes

By John Hoey, Director of IT Business Portfolio Management, Sharp, and Samir Patel, Project Lead – Digital Systems, Sequence Inc.

Running clinical trials is both a costly and lengthy process. Costs will vary depending on the size and complexity of the trial but can run into tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars per trial and take up to a decade to complete.

While clinical trial packaging processes traditionally include a high degree of manual processes, the introduction of technical automation into operations will help strengthen compliance. There are a growing number of opportunities for new technologies to increase the operational efficiency of clinical packaging of Investigation Medicinal Product (IMP) while also improving both accuracy and compliance that are essential to operating in what is a highly regulated sector.

In this article, John Hoey, Director of IT Business Portfolio Management at Sharp and Samir Patel, Project Lead – Digital Systems at Sequence Inc. discuss how an innovative software platform can be used to create customized, user-friendly applications to digitize clinical secondary packaging processes.