Who’s Fighting Digital Healthcare? The Little Guys Who Print Paper Drug Inserts

A Simi Valley, CA, pharmaceutical printing company is challenging language in a congressional bill that would eliminate paper drug inserts for health care professionals and cut into its business.

Beyond the economic toll, Pharmaceutic Litho & Label President Jason Laurence worries that separating drug labeling information from the product would put patients at risk because health care professionals do not always have access to the Internet.

He said printed literature decreases the risk of prescribing errors, poor patient compliance and adverse events during power outages and natural disasters, in remote regions and when armed forces medical personnel are deployed.