The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council's 2010 "Compliance Package of the Year" Award
 Stora Enso's PharmaDDSi Suboxone Compliance Monitoring Package, CIAB-Compliance in a Bottle by Anderson Packaging Inc., and the Prempro Starter Kit by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
While there are no fees or other monetary charges required to participate in this program, qualifying entries must: 1) be in a compliance-prompting format with at least one compliance-enhancing feature; 2) have been commercially available (anywhere in the world) at some point during 2010; and 3) not require drug products to be "re-packaged" by patients.
A category for Innovative Design has been added to recognize compliance packages not yet commercially available. Previously precluded from the competition, prototypes, designs, concept packages, and other formats that are not commercially available are now eligible for competition in this new category.
The winning entry will receive an official recognition from the HCPC designating it as the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council's "Compliance Package of the Year" for 2010. Additional recognition will be presented to packages selected as "First Runner Up" and "Second Runner Up" as well as for "Innovative Design."
Each of the winning entries will be promoted by the HCPC during its 2011 National Symposium on Patient Compliance, in articles to be published in Unit Dose Alert (the official newsletter of HCPC), and in materials forwarded to media representatives by the HCPC.
Cash awards will also be granted, in the form of scholarships, to schools of packaging designated by winners of the HCPC's 2009 "Compliance Package of the Year" Award.
Official Rules
Entries must be submitted between November 15, 2010 and March 15, 2011. The winning entry will be announced during the HCPC's 18th Annual National Symposium on Patient Compliance.
- Entrants must submit sample packages, as well as proof of their commercial availability during 2010. At the HCPC's discretion, a statement attesting to commercial availability will be deemed acceptable. The HCPC reserves the right, however, to demand verifiable evidence that the package was indeed commercially available as a qualification condition.
- Digital photographs or drawings of the package must also be submitted by entrants so that they may be included in the HCPC media announcements for the winning entry.
- Packages must be in a compliance-prompting format, and may be intended for distribution by a pharmaceutical company, a pharmacist, a home healthcare provider, an in-patient facility, or other entity. Qualifying entries will not require patients to "re-package" medications.
- Entries must include a separate form noting the name, address and phone number of the company or individual which is marketing the product, the name of the person(s) responsible for its design, and the person who will be responsible for designating a school of packaging to receive scholarship funds should the entry win one of the three awards.
- Any additional information regarding the package (i.e., promotional literature, other honors or awards that the package has earned, etc.) may be included, but must be kept separate from the packaging itself so that it will not influence the judges' review. Failure to comply will result in disqualification.
The Actonel Combi package from P&G Pharmaceuticals was developed in Europe to simplify treatment regimens for osteoporosis involving risedronate plus calcium and vitamin D. The package contains four weekly boxes, and each weekly box contains a blister pack with one 35 mg risedronate tablet, six sachets of calcium 1000 mg and vitamin D 880 IU, along with a patient information leaflet.
A panel of judges will be selected by the HCPC. All entries will be evaluated by HCPC staff to determine eligibility. All entries determined to meet the established entry qualifications by HCPC staff will be reviewed by the judging panel. Judges will be asked to make subjective determinations, on a numerical scale, of characteristics such as: 1) the package's ability to increase pharmaceutical compliance; 2) innovative designs incorporated into the packaging; and 3) unique features which distinguish the package from others on the market.
The package receiving the highest combined score will be designated "Compliance Package of the Year;" the package receiving the second highest combined score will be designated "First Runner Up;" and the package receiving the third highest combined score will be designated "Second Runner Up." In the case of a tie, judges will be asked to re-evaluate the three packages which received the highest combined scores during initial review. Judging will take place at Reed-Exhibition's Interphex 2011 exhibition at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City and all entries will be on display after the judging is concluded.
The judges' determination will be final, and the HCPC reserve the right to withhold the prize should there be no acceptable entries in any or all of the winning categories.
Cash prizes, in the form of scholarship funds forwarded to an accredited school of packaging in the United States by the HCPC and Canon Communications based on
- The HCPC will make a reasonable effort to determine how each of the winners would like to have their cash prizes distributed (i.e., which accredited school of packaging should receive the scholarship funds).
- Should winners in any category fail to designate an accredited school of packaging within 90 calendar days of the Award's presentation, the prize will be "forfeited."
- Winners may not be able to "split" cash prizes by designating more than one school of packaging.
- CASH PRIZES WILL NOT BE AWARDED TO ANY PERSON OR ENTITY OTHER THAN AN ACCREDITED U.S. SCHOOL OF PACKAGING FOR ANY REASON, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Wyeth Global Packaging Services' Effexor XR Flow-Wrap package won second runner up at the Compliance Package of the Year awards. First place went to the Glipizide Key.In package by Watson Pharmaceuticals. Pfizer's Champix Starting Therapy placed as first runner up. One World Design and Manufacturing Group's NextBottle won Innovative Package of the Year.
The HCPC has sole responsibility for forwarding cash prizes directly to accredited schools of packaging designated by the winner of each category, and will be responsible for directing the Dean of each school to distribute the funds as scholarships to one or more students based on financial need, academic achievement, or any other criteria that the Dean sees fit.
All entry materials will become the property of the HCPC and will not be returned. Entries must be mailed to:
Vicki Welch
HCPC Communications Director
Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council
2711 Buford Road, #268
Bon Air, VA 23235-2423
804-338-5778
Click here to download an entry form.
Interested persons may obtain the name of the winner by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the address above.
Employees of the HCPC member companies, HCPC individual members, and their families may submit entries, but they will automatically disqualify themselves from consideration as judges should they do so.
THIS CONTEST IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW
When reviewing the Toviaz physician sample entry, one of the CPY judges commented, "The diary-like " book, "Your Daily Tracker" is a useful tool for encouraging both drug compliance and healthy habits. The carded blister is well laid out and easy to follow ... "
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The 2009 Innovative Design award winner is Vitality's GlowCap. The intelligent pill caps use light and sound, which can be followed by timely phone calls or text messages to remind people to adhere to any prescription regimen.
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The First Runner Up 2009 Compliance Package of the Year, BMS' Onglyza Physician Sample,
provides patient prescribing information integrated into the package at the point of dispensing and includes pocket for compliance supporting literature.
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The 2009 CPY Second Runner Up, LamictalR Patient Titration Kit, is part of a family of LamictalR products. Individual therapies are distinguished by package color schemes, including Orange, Green, and Blue, with three titration therapies as well as four maintenance therapies. Weeks of therapy are distinguished with concise graphics and patient dosing instruction, divided by individual peelable blister units contained within the package.
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Compliance Package of the Year Wyeth Pharmaceuticals' Prempro Starter Kit |
Compliance in a Bottle encloses a blister pack within a child-resistant senior-friendly bottle. |
2006 Compliance Package of the Year Award Winners |
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Click here to see winners from previous compliance package of the year winners. |
