OPEN-SCS Group Presents Update on Enhanced Drug Distribution Security
The Open Serialization Communication Standard (OPEN-SCS) Group, a collection of healthcare sector companies dedicated to standardizing packaging line serialization and aggregation data exchanges, presented its latest findings at the Food & Drug Administration’s December 5-6, 2017, public meeting on enhanced drug distribution security, per the DSCSA. The group was invited to share its accomplishments in connection with electronic interoperability, standards for data exchange, data architecture, and aggregation & inference.
In the pharmaceutical sector, the lack of standardized track & trace-related communication has posed significant constraints on implementing workable serialization solutions. FDA’s Drug Supply Chain Security Act outlines the critical steps necessary for building an electronic interoperable system that, by 2023, can trace prescription drug products distributed in the U.S.