Ministry of Commerce: In the future, prescription information will be shared with drug retailers

September 9th, the Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference on September 7th, press spokesman Shen Danyang said that the cross-border integration and development of pharmaceutical e-commerce will be the key to the transformation of the future service model of the pharmaceutical retail industry. Therefore, the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will actively cooperate with the State Council Medical Reform Office, the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the Development and Reform Commission and other departments to study and formulate relevant policies, mechanisms and standards for the development of pharmaceutical e-commerce, and promote the sharing of pharmaceutical, medical and prescription information with pharmaceutical retail enterprises.
first half of 2015, China's pharmaceutical e-commerce has developed rapidly. Shen Danyang said that in terms of the number of enterprises, according to the State Food and Drug Administration statistics, as of June 30, 2015, the total number of enterprises with Internet trading qualifications was 425, an increase of 56.3% year-on-year. In terms of sales scale, according to incomplete statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, the average revenue of pharmaceutical e-commerce with Internet qualification increased by more than 50%, far higher than the growth rate of traditional drug circulation and sales model.
2013 China Health Statistics Yearbook, released by the State Health and Planning Commission in April 2014, the average annual income of third-tier public hospitals accounted for 40% of the total annual income in 2012. The profitability of prescription drugs is important in the hospital profit model. How will the hospital make money if all the prescriptions go to the pharmacy?
the transformation and upgrading of the pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical e-commerce will become a more easily leading breakthrough point, should be established by the authority of trade associations, or by the government-led large pharmaceutical e-commerce platform. The e-commerce platform with reduced circulation cost should be the profit point of the traditional pharmaceutical industry in the future, and should also be the key direction of the business sector in the future. Zhang Li, deputy director of e-commerce research at the Ministry of Commerce Research Institute, said.
on the one hand, the rapid development of pharmaceutical e-commerce, on the other hand, the Ministry of Commerce will focus on hospitals to share prescription information with pharmaceutical retail enterprises. For hospital managers, how to deal with the challenges of future post-prescription outflow hospital profit model needs to be prepared. (Health)