Welcome to the twelfth edition of the B&O Medicom newsletter!

How to enable patient outcome with user friendly, intuitive and state of art drug delivery devices?

B&O Medicom does that with our core competencies in drug delivery device services & consulting.

In this issue you can read about:

          . Patient empowerment by adding electronics to your drug delivery devices
          . The impact of the Helping Hand on patient compliance

          . LEVA^® autoinjector - User feedback
          . B&O Medicom participating at DDL

          . Meet us at the Universe of Pre-filled Syringes and Injection Devices, October 27.-            28. in Venice, Italy 

Scroll down the page and learn more about the latest news from B&O Medicom.

Micro electronics is increasingly becoming a key differentiating factor and driver in drug delivery devices. New generations of injection and inhalation systems have integrated micro electronics to assist in improving patient compliance and empowerment and to lead to overall savings in healthcare costs.

Micro electronics may be new to many pharmaceutical companies. There is however already much experience around when it comes to implementation, patient use of features and cost efficiency. B&O Medicom has been involved in numerous feasibility studies and technology due diligence projects helping our drug delivery device clients to address these issues.

Contact Hans J. Jensen at hje@medicomnordic.com if you will like to hear more about opportunities for benefiting your patient and learn about B&O Medicom’s abilities.

What is it good for…? Bayer Schering in Poland has performed a large RCT to assess the impact of an electronic monitoring and reminder device on patient compliance with antihypertensive therapy. An article in Journal of Hypertension this autumn will reveal IF the Helping Hand has improved compliance for the study population as well as their attitude towards the device.

Email Peter W. Ravn at pwr@medicomnordic.com in case you will like a copy of the article, make a shortcut to the outcome or if you want to discuss clinical trials with the Helping Hand.

It may work well, it may be safe and it may look nice. But what are actual patient perceptions about the LEVA auto injector? Does the patient find LEVA intuitive and easy to use? And do perceptions vary from a patient suffering from RA to a patient with MS or with diabetes? And what age does LEVA fit best? A survey with 76 patients  suffering from RA, MS or diabetes and with age ranging from 7 to 77 years reveal pro’s and cons toward LEVA in a recent executed User trial.

Email Tanya Arp Nielsen at taa@medicomnordic.com if you will like to hear about the outcome of the user trial.

Don’t miss the B&O Medicom drug delivery device display at the Drug Delivery to the Lung 20^th anniversary conference, December 9 – 11 in Edinburg. We will exhibit our range of drug delivery devices focusing on our robust actuation counter Asmair and for the first time inform of our new low cost breath actuated inhaler concept. Take advantage of the outstanding opportunity to learn about these devices and about services which B&O Medicom can provide to you.

To get all the details, email Jan Andersson at ans@medicomnordic.com to book a one to one appointment either at the conference or at a time more convenient to you.

The goal of the PDA conference is to give an update of relevant aspects of pre-filled syringes and parenteral injections in general. It will cover technical issues from the development to manufacturing, quality and engineering, supplier issues, regulatory topics and inspections, handling and use of devices. As always a focus is given to practical information and case studies.

This year B&O Medicom will not just participate as exhibitors. Zia Afreedi, Project Manager for the LEVA auto injector, will give a presentation about “A differentiated auto injector, co-developed together with the end user” scheduled in Track 4 “”Add-on Devices October 27 in the afternoon.

We are looking forward to seeing you at our booth no. 44 in the exhibition hall. Contact Tanya Arp-Nielsen,taa@medicomnordic.com if you will like to know more already now.

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