NET Sale prescription medicine price or drop 20%

Absrtact: May 28, the State administration of Food and Drug Administration issued the "Internet Food and drug management measures (draft)", the first time the release of prescription drugs in the electricity business channel sales. July 7, Drug Administration approved Guangdong Food and drug supervision

May 28, the State administration of Food and Drug Administration issued the "Internet Food and drug management measures (draft)", for the first time to release prescription drugs in the electricity business channel sales. July 7, the Drug Administration approved the Guangdong Provincial Food and Drug Administration to carry out the network sales of prescription drugs pilot. Reporter from a power to understand that the release of the sale of prescription drugs may bring about 20% of the price of drug prices decline, but there are drug experts on this initiative cautious attitude, that is premature, especially the safety of medication is difficult to protect.

Industry: If you let go, drug prices or 20%

According to the Chinese Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Research Center statistics, 2012, China's pharmaceutical business, the size of 1.6 billion yuan, and 2013 to reach 4.26 billion yuan. Some insiders said that once the full release of the internet to buy prescription drugs, will bring huge business opportunities to the electricity dealers.

Happy People online pharmacy director Liang Yongjian told reporters, the current model, the patient is in the state of passive medication, the net sale of prescription drugs once released, patients can be based on the doctor's prescription and comparison, including drug manufacturers, prices, information more transparent, patients have the right to choose. In addition, some drugs have privacy, online shopping is also conducive to the protection of patient privacy. "If we completely let go, the drug industry will be more competitive, and I reckon it will reduce the price of drugs by about 20%." ”

Drug experts: It's too early to let go

National Health planning system expert Sun Zhongxi of the national rational use of drug monitoring This is conservative attitude, he said, drug prices, drug enterprises and other competition is the second, drug safety is the primary need to consider the issue. As for the safety of medication, Liang Yongjian said, online shopping also need to rely on prescription, online shopping is just the change of purchase mode.

Sun Zhongxi introduced, the comprehensive release of the net sale prescription medicine is premature, "prescription medicine after all to under the guidance of the doctor prescription medication, once the net sale open, no doctor and pharmacist guidance, medication risk increases, and the source of the prescription, true and false, etc. are not textual." "Sun Zhongxi suggested that online prescription drugs can be released when people have a relatively high level of medication knowledge," I estimate 5-10 years later is more feasible, the medicine is after all a kind of special commodity, especially in the remote rural area and so on undeveloped area, the patient can purchase the medicine only by a prescription, this one of the medication risk will increase greatly. ”