In 2019, online pharmacy sales exceed 100 billion, will usher in a period of rapid development

Pharmaceutical Network Market AnalysisMay 24, a website published the "three terminals of the six major market online pharmacy drug analysis." According to the data, sales of brick-and-mortar pharmacies and online pharmacies in China will reach 662 billion yuan in 2019, up 8.4% year-on-yearAmong them, online pharmacy sales amounted to 125.1 billion yuan, or 18.9%, which was only 1.2% in 2013, while sales of physical pharmacies amounted to 536.9 billion yuan, accounting for 81.1%, down 4.1% from 2018is noted that in 2019, China's online pharmacy sales (including pharmaceuticals and non-drugs) were 125.1 billion yuan, up 38.2% year-on-year, surpassing the 100 billion yuan markAlthough growth has slowed compared with previous years, the outlook is still positivein fact, in recent years to explore the interaction of Internet channels with traditional retail pharmacies, in order to create a new linkage model in the field of drug retailing, has become a common choice between pharmaceutical e-commerce and physical pharmaciesUnder the call of the new retail era of medicine, the Internet has become a new mode of industry integration and developmentIt is in this trend that the development of online pharmacies has begun to enter the fast lanefor the demand continued to grow large pharmaceutical retail market, the pharmaceutical market has a congenital advantage to develop new retail, consumers can not only get daily medicine from smart pharmacies, but also along the way for health management, get rid of offline pharmacy consumers "buy and go" of disposable consumption, to health service managementThe offline pharmacies that mark the concept of "new retail ingress in medicine" have almost one thing in common: online Internet technology to power up, mobile medicine and other business modules, to achieve health management closed-loopat present, although China's online operation in pharmacies is still in its infancy, but by the 2020 Spring Festival, the impact of the epidemic, online operation mode for retail pharmacies to further open up the market space, the industry in the first quarter of orders sufficientAnd many local policies also encourage the development of the drug retail industry, is expected to further enhance the overall level of online drug retailing, the market development space is very largein fact, in recent years, the country has been through the release of a series of policy norms and guide the development of "Internet and pharmacy." Such as the "Opinion on promoting the development of "Internet and Medical Health" issued in early 2018 (State Office issued (2018) No26) explicitly allows the development of Internet hospitals relying on medical institutions, supports the exploration of medical institutions prescription information and drug retail information sharing, through online prescription, pharmacist audit, third-party drug distribution process, accelerate the realization of online payment of medical security and "one-stop" settlementsubsequently issued "guidance on reforming and improving the comprehensive regulatory system of the medical and health industry." It also requires the relevant departments to speed up the revision of the standard system for new technologies, new equipment and new business conditions for medical and health services such as "Internet and Medical Health"industry believes that the future of online and offline integration of pharmacies will be a new development trend, and with the introduction of Internet medicine, Internet medical series of policies, the industry will usher in a period of rapid developmentIn addition, if prescription drugs can be liberalized online sales, the development of online pharmacies may be even more rapid.