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Aptar Digital Health and SHL Medical enter strategic partnership to optimize the patient experience with self-injectable therapies

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Aptar Digital Health and SHL Medical enter strategic partnership to optimize the patient experience with self-injectable therapies

Aptar Digital Health, a global leader in digital health solutions (Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and digital Patient Support Programs), connected devices and disease management, and SHL Medical, a world-leading solutions provider of advanced drug delivery systems such as autoinjectors, pen injectors, and innovative specialty delivery systems, today announced their strategic partnership. The collaboration will extend SHL Medical’s connected device technologies by integrating Aptar Digital Health’s SaMD platform to provide comprehensive solutions to help patients on injectable therapies manage their disease.

Devices designed by SHL such as the Molly® Connected Cap, a smart retrofittable add-on for SHL Medical’s market-proven Molly modular platform autoinjector, would benefit from Aptar Digital Health’s SaMD platform to enhance the patient experience by offering an optimized support. The Molly Connected Cap is a quick-to-market patient monitoring solution engineered for compatibility with various medical data systems, IoT devices, and digital health apps for seamless ecosystem integration.

Aptar Digital Health’s SaMD platform offers digital health solutions adapted to the patient’s profile, disease state, and treatment plan to empower them during their treatment journey. Through the partnership, SHL Medical will recommend Aptar Digital Health as one of the trusted digital partners with a large portfolio of regulated digital health solutions spanning multiple therapeutic areas and medical use. Within the framework of SHL Medical’s Alliance Management Program, the partnership will leverage both companies’ capabilities to develop end-to-end solutions for biotech and pharmaceutical industries that would support the enhancement of patient’s experience during self-injection of innovative drugs such as GLP-1, and facilitate patient orientation.

“Embarking on a self-injection therapy and adhering to a consistent injection schedule can pose a significant challenge to patients and affect the active involvement in their treatment journey,” said Sai Shankar, President of Aptar Digital Health. “By joining forces with SHL Medical, a world-class leader in innovative drug delivery systems, we aim to positively and durably change the experience of patients who must self-inject regularly.”

“The increasing need for home-based treatments and the evolving healthcare landscape have created a need for collaborative innovation within the drug delivery industry,” said Ralph Howald, Chief Technical Officer at SHL Medical. “With our combined expertise, the partnership with Aptar Digital Health will serve as the first step to realizing a thoroughly-needed digital ecosystem for injectable drugs, starting with a digital transformation that will impact the end-to-end value chain in the future.”

 

About Aptar Digital Health

Aptar Pharma’s Digital Health division is part of AptarGroup, Inc., a global leader in drug and consumer product dosing, dispensing and protection technologies. Aptar Digital Health creates end-to-end solutions to enhance patient experiences every day, leveraging a holistic ecosystem of digital interventions. Amplified by an industry-leading portfolio of products and solutions, Aptar Digital Health’s offering combines mobile and web apps, connected drug delivery systems, onboarding, training and advanced data analytics services to actively empower patients and create a positive treatment journey. Aptar is headquartered in Crystal Lake, Illinois and has more than 13,000 dedicated employees in 20 countries. For more information, please visit www.aptardigitalhealth.com and www.aptar.com.

About SHL Medical

As a world-leading solutions provider of advanced drug delivery systems, SHL Medical is the partner of choice for many leading pharma and biotech companies. Driven by our company purpose – Enabling Patients’ Independence – we offer patient-centric solutions for the design, development, and manufacturing of autoinjectors, pen injectors, as well as innovative specialty delivery systems for large-volume and high-viscosity formulations. We also offer final assembly, labeling, and packaging solutions for our drug delivery systems.  ​

In response to the rising trend in home therapy, SHL has increased developmental work in the digital healthcare sector to help improve the drug delivery ecosystem

Located across Switzerland, Taiwan, Sweden, and the US, our global team of experts collaborate seamlessly as one team in utilizing our comprehensive in-house manufacturing capabilities. Our solutions offer customization and optimization for each project while proactively weaving sustainability-driven measures into our designs and processes to contribute to a cleaner earth.​

For additional information, visit www.shl-medical.com

Media contact: info@shl-medical.com

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