How are you guys handling lot numbers of medication dispensed, in case of recall & whatnot?
Love the concept (spouse is a pharmacist, comes with the territory I guess).
PillPack Raises $4M in Bid to Become Top Mail-Order Pharmacy
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#22I've been getting Xyrem from a central pharmacy for a while now and it's awesome that I can call one day and have my medicine arrive the next day via FedEx. Being able to get all medications with the same convenience as Amazon Prime is awesome. If this doesn't get hit with any regulatory issues, I can totally see Amazon knocking on their door one day and making an acquisition offer.
We'll still need pharmacies for immediate medical needs that can't wait a day, but for everything else this is great.
I now just wish ordering wines and spirits online wasn't fraud with regulatory hurdles paying local retail at BevMo is a lot less attractive than being able to get your favorite bottle of small batch bourbon delivered to your front-door.
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#23So Express Scripts ($100B in annual sales) is going to get taken out by unit dose packaging? WalMart's pharmacy is also testing blister packs + multi-dose...I don't see how this displaces ESI...
My question is what's to stop the existing mail order pharmacies from doing the same thing? My guess is that they'll get bought out if it takes off. Other pharmacies will copy the process.
I would imagine that the ideal scenario is someone designing completely automated equipment for dispensing pills, verifying the pill visually via OpenCV or other computer vision software and packing the pills in a box ready for delivery. This would do the same for mail-order medication as Kiva did for Amazon warehouse automation.
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#24Pillpack is the 10-15 year plan. The 20 year is actual delivery within your body: take a pill once and it gradually releases the correct amount at the correct time with an option to flush it out of your system as well.
Like the contraceptive implant? Without know a thing about drug delivery, it seems like it'd be pretty feasible already. There's probably a reason it's not done for more drugs, but I can't think of a good one. Perhaps the fear of someone pulling out 6 months worth of drug X from their arm, and selling/abusing it?
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#26That's nice. Here in Sweden, this is a standard way of delivering medications to those who need it pre-sorted for easier delivery. It also has environmental benefits, since the waste can be reduced. It's called "ApoDos" (which is just a portmonteau of the "apotek" which means pharmacy, and "dos" which means "dose"), here's a web page from Sweden's largest pharmacy: http://www.apoteketfarmaci.se/Tjanster/Service.aspx?…
Yup - the packaging component has proliferated in a handful of countries, the US (obviously) not being one of them. In fact we imported a piece of quality control machinery from the Netherlands where this packaging is much more commonplace.
Many senior care and mail order pharmacies use such machines.
http://www.thriftywhite.com/Healthy_Pack_Rx.cfm
https://medexpack.com/what-is-a-medex-pack/pre-sorted-indivi...