Challenge
The life sciences industry suffers from several complex drug accountability challenges. A few of them include:
- Manual & error-prone supply activities
- Limited real-time insight in medication intake
- Complex and non-intuitive medication instructions
- High supply waste due to manual, study-specific labeling
The industry, therefore, is looking for an automated solution that can improve supplies efficiency and eliminate guesswork from medication management.
TCS Solution
Supply Management is a part of TCS ADD’s Connected Clinical Trials platform for decentralized trials. It automates and digitizes supply management activities to improve patient safety, compliance and medication adherence through integrated capabilities and analytics-enabled interventions. The platform facilitates delivery of the right package, right information, and the right pill/unit to the right site and the right patient at the right time.
The industry first platform brings together kit tracking, unit dose tracking, and digital labels. By tackling mid-study disruption, the platform ensures that clinical studies never slow down.
Core Functions:
- Kit Tracking: Facilitates automated and real-time tracking & verification of kits for a variety of study designs, kit types, and therapeutic areas, ensuring optimal shelf life of your investigational products. The platform seamless integrates with native systems (such as RTSM, ERP systems, courier services, logistics, etc.) or used as a standalone inventory tool
- Pill/unit Tracking: Enables real-time "at home medication intake" tracking using sensor-based pill packages (smart blisters/ smart bottles) that can be accessed with Site Patient app.
- Digital Label: Provides personalized, easy to understand labels in patient’s native language accessed through Patient Site app. Facilitates real-time insights to label updates
Benefits
- Cloud based platform supporting anytime, anywhere access
- Enhanced insight with rich intuitive dashboard and reports
- Increased efficiency and reduced workload
- Improved data quality and oversight
- Quick and easy configurations requiring zero programming
- Supports direct-to-patient and direct-to-site supplies
- Meaningful and real time insights and prevention
- Increased site and patient engagement
- Quicker go/no-go decision-making
Key Facts
- Up to 80% reduction in on-site drug monitoring efforts, data entry and reconciliation
- Up to 100% reduction in wrong kit dispensing
- Up to 50% reduction in drug non-compliance related dropouts
- Up to 60% reduction in drug-related inspection/audit activities
- Up to 5% reduction in data management queries linked to drug accountability
