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Scan the traceability code to find safe medicine

2025-01-17   

Scan the traceability code, and the last three sales information of this box of drugs will be displayed on your phone. The three sales locations are Shijiazhuang City in Hebei Province, Taiyuan City in Shanxi Province, and Xiamen City in Fujian Province. This indicates that there is a risk of drug reflux or resale. "On January 16th, Zhao Xiuzhu, Deputy Director of the Big Data Center of the National Medical Insurance Administration, demonstrated the use of drug traceability codes on site at the medical insurance drug consumables traceability information collection and application release event. Starting from the 16th, consumers can download the "National Medical Insurance Service Platform" app from the mobile app store to check drug related information. Zhao Xiuzhu introduced that by entering the "Medical Insurance Drug Consumables Traceability Information Query" function, one can scan the drug traceability code to understand the product name, generic name, packaging specifications, production enterprise, sales situation, and other information of the drug, achieving traceable drug sources and destinations. If counterfeit or recycled drugs are purchased, the use of drug traceability codes can still ensure accountability and compensation for losses. It is reported that since January 1st of this year, the National Healthcare Security Administration has comprehensively promoted strict supervision on the "code", fully utilized the value of drug traceability code data, constructed various big data models, expanded regulatory application scenarios, and carried out precise crackdowns on illegal and irregular use of medical insurance funds such as swapping and reselling "returned drugs", empty brushing and brushing of medical insurance cards, and forging prescriptions, and increased efforts to deal with them. There are currently over 4300 national medical insurance drug manufacturing enterprises, producing 247000 types of medical insurance drugs. According to incomplete statistics, the annual production of medical insurance drugs exceeds 60 billion boxes According to Fu Chaoqi, Director of the Big Data Center of the National Healthcare Security Administration, a box of drugs goes through an average of 3-5 circulation links and generates traceability information from the manufacturing enterprise to the distribution enterprise, and then to the hospital and pharmacy before reaching the hands of consumers. There are about 180-300 billion pieces of traceability information for 60 billion boxes every year. Based on each piece of traceability information occupying 1KB (kilobyte), the data volume of traceability information in a year is about 0.3PB (1PB is equivalent to trillions of bytes). The data volume is not large, but the value content is particularly high, making it the 'holographic map' of the entire pharmaceutical industry Fu Chaoqi introduced that drug traceability codes contain information on drug production, logistics, usage, and other aspects. Through big data mining applications, they can further empower the development of China's pharmaceutical industry. Starting from April 2024, the National Healthcare Security Administration will initiate the collection of traceability information for drugs and consumables. Currently, 880900 designated medical institutions have been connected, resulting in 15.806 billion pieces of traceability information. In the downstream links of the circulation chain, our collection work is progressing very smoothly, "said Fu Chaoqi. The collection work is extending upstream, and production and circulation enterprises can upload three code mapping related information, large, medium, and small packaging cascade information, production link traceability information, and circulation link traceability information through the national medical insurance information platform. Ultimately, the national medical insurance service platform will form a complete traceability chain information for drugs and consumables. The national medical insurance service platform will provide drug and consumables traceability information query and calling services for drug and consumables production and distribution enterprises, as well as insured individuals nationwide. The public can check whether the drugs they buy are safe and reliable, "said Fu Chaoqi. Production companies that upload traceability information can also obtain call services to understand which province, city, and hospital their products are sold to, and even locate and analyze adverse reactions of drugs. If there are problems with drugs, they can trace them back to batches and conduct precise recalls. Fu Chaoqi emphasized that for pharmaceutical production enterprises, exchanging information is cost-effective. Production enterprises exchange 1% of upstream value information for 99% of terminal value information. Pharmaceutical companies should actively upload product traceability data information to the national medical insurance service platform. According to the deployment, relying on the national medical insurance service platform, China's medical insurance drug and consumables traceability information will form a unified and standardized medical insurance drug and consumables traceability information system, fully leveraging the important role of traceability information in medical insurance management, empowering the "three doctors" and economic and social development. (New Society)

Edit:Chen Jie Responsible editor:Li Ling

Source:Science and Technology Daily

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