Smart Label Devices for Personalized Medicine Supply Chain
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current labeling technologies in personalized medicine are inefficient, prone to errors, and vulnerable to misidentification and privacy breaches due to the need for continuous printing of labels with varying information, which can disrupt the delivery of therapeutic products and pose risks to patients.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of smart label devices and systems that interact with a cloud-based platform, utilizing blockchain technology for secure and efficient management of label data, allowing for validation, authentication, and updating of label content based on location and user authorization, eliminating the need for continuous label printing and reducing the risk of misidentification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If continuous printing of labels with varying information is performed to accompany materials through the supply chain, then label information can be updated for different facilities and policies, but the process becomes inefficient, time-consuming, and prone to errors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses electronic copies of labels displayed on smart label devices attached to containers, replacing the need for continuous physical printing. The electronic label content can be dynamically updated and copied across different facilities without physical label replacement, maintaining adaptability while improving efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart label devices enable dynamic label content updates based on facility requirements and policies. The labels transition from static printed versions to dynamic electronic displays that can change content without physical manipulation, allowing the same physical label to adapt to different facilities in the supply chain.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple labels are printed and applied at different facilities along the supply chain, then each facility's specific requirements can be met, but the complexity of tracking and managing these labels increases
Solution Approach 1:
A single smart label device serves multiple facilities along the supply chain by displaying different label content based on facility requirements. The device performs multiple functions (identification, tracking, compliance) without requiring separate physical labels for each facility, reducing management complexity while maintaining compliance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback mechanisms where facilities provide requirements and policies that automatically update the label content on smart label devices. This closed-loop feedback system eliminates manual label management complexity by automatically adapting labels to facility-specific requirements.
3Ease of operation
If traditional printed labels are used to identify patient materials, then basic identification can be provided, but the system is vulnerable to theft, misplacement, and privacy breaches
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical printed labels with electronic smart label devices that display information dynamically. This substitution eliminates the vulnerabilities of printed labels (theft, misplacement) while maintaining identification functionality, and adds security features to protect patient privacy.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart label devices provide localized security measures at each facility along the supply chain. Each device can be individually secured and controlled, providing privacy protection specific to each facility's requirements while maintaining overall system security.
4Manufacturing precision
If validated printers and indelible ink are used to print regulatory compliant labels, then label accuracy and compliance are ensured, but the process takes much time, resources, and labor
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses electronic copies of labels displayed on smart label devices, eliminating the need for physical printing operations. Label accuracy is maintained through electronic data management while printing time and resources are eliminated entirely.
Solution Approach 2:
Label content is prepared and validated in advance electronically before being displayed on smart label devices. This preliminary electronic preparation eliminates the need for time-consuming physical printing processes while ensuring regulatory compliance through pre-validation.
Data Source
AI summary
The subject disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices corresponding to smart label devices. Furthermore, disclosed are smart label systems that include individualized medicine modules communicatively coupled with smart label devices. Furthermore, a method is disclosed that comprises receiving, by the smart label control system, detection data from the smart label device, wherein the detection data represents a geo-locational boundary signal. The method further comprises disabling, by the smart label control system, a rendering of content on a display of the smart label device.