Julia Lucaci, PharmD, MS, of Becton, Dickinson and Company, discusses the benefits of blister packaging for chronic medications, advocating for payer incentives to boost medication adherence and ...

Payers should consider providing higher reimbursement rates and/or preferred pharmacy networking status for pharmacies that provide chronic medications in blister packs for patients. Medication ...

In today’s healthcare landscape, central fill pharmacies are implementing automation to streamline preparation of single-dose blister packs before providing them to long-term care facilities. This ...

Today, more pharmacies are implementing full or partial automation to fill unit-dose blister packs with medications. It’s just one way teams can focus more time on primary patient care instead of ...

When the blister pack was conceived in the 1960s, it revolutionized unit-dose drug administration by providing a cheap, light, tamper-proof barrier that preserved product integrity. But it was also a ...