Novartis Pharmaceuticals’ Diovan HCT® Shellpak® was named 2010 Compliance Package of the Year at the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council’s (HCPC) annual Compliance Package of the Year (CPY) competition May 3 at RxAdherence 2011, the organization’s annual conference on patient adherence and compliance-prompting packaging issues.
The competition consists of two categories: one for trade packages released in the past year and the other for innovative designs not yet used commercially. Winning for Innovative Design was the DelPouch® Starter Kit by Catalent Pharma Solutions. The CPY First Runner Up was awarded to the Somaxon® Pharmaceuticals’ Silenor® Patient Starter Kit, while CPY Second Runner Up was earned by Three Rivers Pharmaceutical’s Ribasphere® Ribapak for Ribavirin tablets.
