Keystone launches Ecoslide-RX 2.0

Ecoslide-RX 2.0 includes a host of upgraded features to enhance user-friendliness, including redesigned lock/unlock functionality and enhanced graphics providing more dynamic user instructions.

Compliance packaging helps prompt patients to take medications correctly.  Many compliance packages offer day-of-the-week calendarization for each individual dose, which has been shown to significantly increase patients’ likelihood to adhere to medication regimens. 

Ecoslide-RX 2.0 works for prescription products, physicians’ samples and clinical trial materials.  It is superior to traditional vials because it allows for large, easy-to-read type on all sides, conducive to clear, simple opening instructions, and offers a more reliable locking mechanism. 

The compliance pack is said to be easy to stack in medicine cabinets and convenient to transport.  Blister packages have less risk of contamination from dropping, spilling or moisture, and can be equipped with useful weekly calendars/reminders that help consumers keep track of their medications.

Ecoslide-RX 2.0 has passed Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) protocol testing for child resistance, receiving the highest rating of F=1. In addition to demonstrating a high level of senior friendliness, Ecoslide RX 2.0 was also reported by patients to be easy to open in consumer testing.

Walmart has become the first to adopt Ecoslide-RX 2.0. In 2011, a published peer-reviewed study of over 300,000 Walmart pharmacy patients during a two-year period concluded that compliance, or adherence, packaging improved adherence and persistency.  The same Walmart study showed a significant ROI for the incremental cost of the compliance package over traditional bottles.

Ward Smith, director of marketing at Keystone Folding Box Company, said: ‘With Ecoslide RX 2.0, the overall consumer experience has been improved: the opening procedure of the new package is more intuitive, and minimal effort is required to unlock the package. 

‘Enhanced graphics present operating instructions that are easily understood – a benefit particularly to seniors who, understandably, comprise a significant percentage of prescription medication users.

‘Major pharmaceutical manufacturers are expressing strong interest in this package based on the overall customer experience.’

Keystone Folding Box Company added that its latest package design is more environmentally sustainable than competing packages, hence its Ecoslide moniker. Ecoslide-RX 2.0 is made from 100 percent recyclable material, contains no plastic in its secondary packaging and, unlike other paperboard compliance packs, requires minimal film and foil while maintaining an F=1 child resistance rating.