News Story: Making the Case for Visual Indicators in “Mail-Order” Meds
Delivering medication to a patient’s home is a win-win. It’s convenient for busy people and can save them on co-pays. It also improves efficiency and lowers overhead for centralized pharmacies sending medication via mail or courier service. But patients do have concerns, as highlighted in a recent NPR Health News article Extreme Temperatures May Pose Risks to Some Mail-Order Meds.
Zebra’s research confirms that visual temperature indicators are the best way to increase patient satisfaction and ultimately lower costs by:
- Alerting patients when medication has been exposed to extreme temperatures during transit
- Reducing unnecessary reshipments when patients suspect that a medication has reached damaging temperatures – but are unsure
- Minimizing the need to dispose of medication due to unknown temperature excursions when shipments are delayed and go beyond the expected transit time
You can read more about the third-party research we commissioned to study best practices in medication shipping in our most recent article, Thermal Shipping Technologies, The Cold Hard Facts.