Strong Network for the Healthcare Industry
The board meeting of the VDMA HealthTech working group was dedicated to promoting automation solutions. MicuraPharm presented the D³ Daily Dose Dispenser by KNAPP as a successful solution.
Life saving machines - Current challenges within the healthcare industry provide the ideal environment for technological and creative solutions. However, in the area of conflict between patient safety and economic profitability, innovative medical products are only slowly finding their way into the everyday lives of physicians, pharmacies, nursing staff and patients.
As a catalyst between industry, politics and consumers, the VDMA wants to create better conditions for the development and approval of automated solutions in the healthcare sector. The motivation on the part of companies to develop medical technology products is there, but should not fail due to funding opportunities or administrative structures.
The HealthTech working group set up for this project has now defined initial goals together with companies from the sector. “We have enormous potential to exploit in the area of drug supply,” explains MicuraPharm Managing Director Edgar Mähringer-Kunz and Chairman of the working group.
As host of the last board meeting, MicuraPharm provided insights into the demo center, where the D³ Daily Dose Dispenser from KNAPP is available for demonstration purposes. The first fully automated blistering system is currently being validated - a project that at times called for a cool head and nerves of steel from the development team. The legal requirements also stipulate that every system must be validated again before it can be put into operation. “Due to the federally structured administrative system, we expect that there will be different requirements at the individual locations,” explains Edgar Mähringer-Kunz.
The validation for Rhineland-Palatinate is on the home straight, and a pharmacist in Mainz will soon be able to produce patient blisters in Klein-Winternheim on a weekly basis. In order to facilitate delivery and commissioning for future locations within Germany, Edgar Mähringer-Kunz believes that a practice-oriented catalog of requirements and economic thinking within the regulatory authorities are essential.
