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The smart functionality provides patient compliance monitoring. “Lapses of memory and other medication errors are regrettably common when a patient is cared for in his or her own home,” says Ralph Mendoza, sales and marketing manager, North America, Stora Enso, Consumer Boards Pharmaceutical Solutions Group. “With Stora Enso Pharma DDSi, the compliance data stored in the microchip embedded in the package can be read with a mobile phone and transmitted automatically to a server where it is readily and safely available to those responsible for a patient’s care.” He adds that compliance monitoring is also needed by pharmaceutical companies to demonstrate the efficacy of their drugs.