The vending machine can sell prescription drugs

A province issued a document that social pharmacies with Internet drug sales qualifications can sell prescription drugs through remote medicine cabinets (automatic medicine vending machines)

The vending machine can sell prescription drugs

Recently, the Hubei Provincial Drug Administration drafted the "Hubei Provincial Social Pharmacy Supervision and Management Measures (Trial)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures") and publicly solicited opinions from the society

The "Regulations on Automatic Drug Sales" in Article 12 of the "Measures" mentioned that social pharmacies with Internet drug sales qualifications can set up remote medicine cabinets to provide automatic drug sales services (the "Administrative Regulations on Remote Pharmacies (Medicine Cabinets) of Hubei Province" shall be formulated separately ),in:

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This also means that social pharmacies with Internet drug sales qualifications can sell prescription drugs through remote medicine cabinets (automatic vending machines)

According to the requirements of the Measures, remote medicine cabinets selling prescription drugs should at least meet the following requirements:

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At the same time, social pharmacies engaged in drug Internet sales activities must comply with the following regulations:

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Let go in many places, remote medicine cabinets can sell prescription medicines

In fact, similar documents have already been piloted

The "Regulations" clarify that when prescription drugs are sold through smart medicine storage cabinets, the electronic prescriptions obtained must be issued by Internet hospitals approved by law

At the same time, prescriptions obtained through Internet hospitals should comply with national regulations on Internet hospitals, telemedicine, and Internet diagnosis and treatment

According to the requirements of the "Regulations" of Yantai City, the smart medicine storage cabinet must meet the following requirements to sell medicines:

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Drug retail chain stores should establish relevant records of each link of the intelligent medicine storage cabinet, so as to be true, complete, accurate, effective and traceable.
The records and related vouchers should be kept for at least five years
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The conspicuous position of the smart medicine storage cabinet should indicate the name of the relevant drug retail chain store, the contact number, the certificate number of the "Pharmaceutical Business License", the smart medicine storage cabinet number, and the complaint telephone number 12345
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The above-mentioned marks should be obvious and not easy to fall off
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The smart medicine storage cabinet should be able to print sales receipts for medicines.
The content of the receipt covers the name of the chain store to which the smart medicine storage cabinet belongs, the medicine storage cabinet number, the name of the medicine, the holder of the marketing authorization, the manufacturer, the specification, the batch number, and the price, quantity, date of purchase
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The smart medicine storage cabinet should automatically establish true, complete, accurate and traceable records, and be able to network with the enterprise computer system in real time to meet the requirements of drug traceability
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Automatic medicine vending machine, but also medical insurance settlement

In addition to selling prescription drugs, there are places where automatic drug vending machines have opened up the medical insurance settlement function
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On July 10 last year, the Chongqing Drug Administration and the Medical Insurance Bureau issued the "Regulations on the Management of Automated Drug Vending Machines in Chongqing (for Trial Implementation)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), and a few days later, the "Regulations" were issued policies.
Interpreted and clarified the background, basis, core measures and precautions of the "Regulations
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It is worth noting that the policy interpretation of the "Regulations" once again emphasized the issue of medical insurance regulations in the precautions
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According to the "Regulations", the automatic drug vending machines set up in the physical pharmacies of medical insurance designated retail pharmacies can open the medical insurance personal account settlement function in accordance with the relevant regulations of medical insurance
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Simply put, medical insurance designated pharmacies set up automatic drug vending machines in the store, and customers buy medicines through the automatic drug vending machines, and the medical insurance personal accounts can also be settled
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In other words, even if the vending machine sells medicine, the medical insurance can be settled
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A large number of unmanned pharmacies may be coming

Judging from the current situation, after the vending machine took the "Internet + medical" express train, the situation began to change drastically
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To put it another way, the combination of the Internet and automatic drug vending machines will trigger the birth of a large number of "unmanned pharmacies"
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Moreover, this concept began to spread in the circle two years ago
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On April 18, 2018, Kuaifang Drug Delivery held a press conference in Beijing to showcase its R&D investment in Kuaifang Supermicro unmanned pharmacy
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Simply put, the so-called "supermicro unmanned pharmacy" is an intelligent vending machine
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If this concept is scened and more intelligent, under the influence of "Internet + medical", it will be the arrival of the era of unmanned pharmacies
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In June last year, the first truly unmanned drugstore in China officially began operations
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According to Liaoning Daily, the unmanned intelligent pharmacy X-Lab is located in Shenyang
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Customers only need to follow the following process to purchase medicines by themselves: scan the code to enter the store, select the product on the intelligent interactive screen, follow the indicator to guide the medicine, and settle without feeling.
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