Solution Overview
China has more than 600,000 retail pharmacies and tens of thousands of hospital pharmacies. Prescriptions leaving the hospital, and internet-plus healthcare policy, are pushing prescription drugs into retail. The pharmacy supplies drugs, dispenses prescriptions, and guides how they are taken. Older pharmacies manage stock coarsely, warn late on expiry, move prescriptions slowly, risk a dispensing error, and do not follow chronic conditions. Built on IoT and the pharmacy information system, this solution manages stock, moves prescriptions electronically, dispenses automatically, and guides the patient.
It is used in hospital pharmacies, retail pharmacies, internet pharmacies, and in-hospital cabinets. Stock covers receiving, expiry warnings, batch traceability, and temperature and humidity, which is what GSP asks for. An electronic prescription is received, checked, and dispensed as one digital path, between a hospital and a pharmacy or an internet hospital and a pharmacy. Automated dispensers and a dispensing system raise speed and cut errors. Guidance covers reminders, contraindications, and chronic care, so patients stay with the regimen. HIS, the electronic record, insurance, and internet hospitals close the loop from prescription to drug.
The rules, and what changes
The Drug Administration Law requires drug traceability. GSP is explicit on temperature, humidity, and expiry. Electronic prescriptions must follow the Detailed Rules on the Supervision of Internet-based Diagnosis and Treatment. Automated dispensing cuts outpatient time from 3–5 minutes a person to under one minute. Expiry warnings cut the write-off rate by more than 50%. Prescription flow lets a patient collect outside the hospital. Chronic-care management lifts repeat purchase and the average ticket. In a Grade III Class A hospital, pharmacists can put more than 30% of their time into guidance and pharmacy services.
