E-commerce lifescience package transportation and testing considerations

摘要

While we don't have exact figures on what percentage of those categories are currently sold through e-commerce channels, one trend is the growth of mail-order prescription deliveries to individual patients. Health systems are looking to mail-order prescription services as a revenue generator to supplement network memberships. According to the American Journal of Healthcare Pharmacy, mail-order pharmaceutical deliveries made up 23% of total expenditures in 2016 (up 6.7% over the previous year with continued growth expected). Through companies like Edgepark Medical and CCS Medical, for example, consumers are increasingly able to purchase medical supplies and devices to manage home procedures independently. These individually packaged and boxed items must take into account the same e-commerce packaging considerations that other consumer product manufacturers have followed for many years, with a few added steps.