Smart pharmaceutical packaging from Rondo

At Pharmapack 2020, Rondo is presenting sustainable pharmaceutical packaging and an AR app that supports patients in handling their medication.

These days presents Rondo is presenting its latest developments in pharmaceutical folding cartons at Pharmapack in Paris. The manufacturer from Allschwil in Switzerland will be showing trade visitors various solutions for 100 per cent plastic-free folding cartons. Rondo will also be demonstrating its Patient Support App, which is designed to improve patient compliance and facilitate access to digital information and services.

Improved revenue compliance

With its Patient Support App, Rondo focusses on the needs of patients. The focus is on improving adherence. By providing digital content via the app, Rondo's customers can also offer users additional services that make the product easier to use. The digital package insert with read-aloud function is one of several features. The app allows users to take a virtual look inside the packaging without having to open it. Pharmacists, doctors and nursing staff can familiarise patients with the product in this way. A video instruction manual demonstrates how to use the product and can be recapitulated by the user at any time.

Using augmented reality, the Patient Support App can be implemented quickly and easily on any pharmaceutical packaging. The artwork of the folding carton remains untouched. Even if the packaging design changes, the app content does not need to be adapted. The app is available for Android and iOS and can be used on all common smartphones and wearables.

Plastic-free packaging

Rondo's solutions for plastic-free packaging are the answer to the global initiative of over 290 organisations that have committed themselves to avoiding the use of plastic as far as possible.

For the production of intelligent packaging, Rondo uses another technology as an alternative to augmented reality: the integration of chips with near-field communication technology (NFC). Here too, the aim is to enable improved communication between patient, doctor and manufacturer. At the same time, the radio chips contain a unique identity, making it more difficult to counterfeit medicines. The chips can be labelled with additional information. They also enable digital first-opening protection.

Source: neue-verpackung / medizin-und-technik.industrie