Podcast: Leveraging data science for sustainable autoinjector development

SHL Medical is pleased to announce the release of its 2023 sustainability report, which details the company’s ongoing efforts and accomplishments in sustainability and innovation. 

Ready to embark on a journey where connectivity meets autoinjectors? Dive into the world of SHL Medical’s Molly® Connected Cap and experience the future of healthcare. Driven by its experience with commercializing over three dozen autoinjectors worldwide, including 17 combination product projects from the market-proven Molly modular platform technology, SHL Medical developed the Molly Connected Cap autoinjector – an agile solution that supports remote adherence monitoring for personalized care.
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In this presentation, we introduce our most recent development – a versatile, reusable, and connected electromechanical solution that upholds the concept of drug agnosticism, platform flexibility, ease-of-use, as well as device programmability. By leveraging technological application expertise, we demonstrate how an electromechanical, versatile device platform can flexibly host different primary containers and formulations. Here, we also demonstrate how adding programmable firmware into the device circumvents formulation uncertainties across the pre-clinical, clinical, and commercial development of the drug counterpart. Finally, we show how the conserved element of the device results into an autoinjector solution that flexibly addresses various primary containers, therapy areas, regional healthcare landscapes, as well as patient groups. We also discuss an optional function for tracking injection-related data, opening pathways to gather detailed insights into the patient experience, and ultimately opening possibilities to connect such device usage data with other digital health solutions.

Abstract: Digital health solutions create myriad possibilities in terms of enabling “beyond the pill” health outcomes. However, the path to streamlining a strategic approach between pharma and its development partners toward creating smart combination products remains a challenge. With a general consensus that developers must accurately determine in advance what users want, many companies wait upon the success of early players as a determinant to foray into digital health. This philosophy, however, disregards the heterogeneity of combination products in development along with the diversity of clinical or patient-reported outcomes measures. Here, we present a dissection of SHL’s Innovation Partnership program along with our connected device offering – both of which allows us to flexibly collaborate with any pharmaceutical partner in the development of connected therapeutics.