Nov. 27, 2018, was to be a red-letter day in the 10-year program to implement an end-to-end pharma traceability system. Did industry meet the deadline?

“This is shaping up like Y2K did back in 2000,” says Greg Cathcart, CEO of Excellis Health Solutions. “A lot of work has been done; a lot of work is yet to do, and because of the grandfathering of unserialized product, it will be months or years until we’re where we need to be.”