Pharmacies, virtual care providers and telehealth / digital health companies, increasingly ship medications directly to patients for convenience and accessibility. With this trend has emerged growing concerns from pharmacies, patients, and regulators around shipment safety and temperature stability.

To address these concerns, Parcel Health has pioneered a proprietary coating and layering mechanism — Parcel Coat — to provide water-resistance, sustainability, and short-term insulation to our packaging solutions.

In this blog post, we will discuss the importance of packaging materials efficacy—meaning how well can packaging materials maintain the integrity of medications—and the follow-on issues of both plastic and paper packaging.