A Summary of Findings
The Challenge
The trend toward direct-to-patient specialty medication delivery has been growing for several years, which has only been accelerated by COVID-19 restrictions. These medications are often biologics and must be kept within strict temperature ranges. For specialty pharmacies this has meant purchasing and storing bulky, expensive, and single-use packaging solutions – cumbersome for both pharmacists and patients – and incurring increasing inbound and outbound freight costs, as well as negative environmental impact.
The Solution
To help address these challenges, MaxQ designed a purpose-built thermal shipping system, with goals of making it:
• As much as 50% lighter
• Up to 75% smaller
• Easier to store
• Returnable, reusable and recyclable
• Effective for all seasons
• URAC 4.0 compliant
The result was the development of the MaxPlus PharmaPack SP shipper that met and exceeded the objectives.