Due to the increase of income, aging population, technological progress and other factors, the pharmaceutical consumption in China increased from 106,064 tons in 2015 to 158,022 tons in 2019. During the process of drug sales, the drug regulatory authorities require drug manufacturers to assume the main responsibility for the construction of the drug traceability system, and units engaging in drug wholesale, retail and using shall coordinate to build a complete drug traceability system and fulfill their own traceability responsibilities. In the following, we will introduce the application of PDA in drug traceability.

Customer pain point

• It's impossible for pharmaceutical enterprises to assist the regulatory authorities in drug monitoring, which violates national regulatory laws and regulations and is easy to receive corresponding fines.

Pharmaceutical enterprises themselves cannot know about the sales/inventory/flow direction of various medicines of their own, and cannot conduct replenishment, production and distribution immediately.

For the problematic and inferior drugs, it is impossible to trace the flow direction of each box of drugs, which has a greater social impact and does harm to people's health, causing major losses to pharmaceutical enterprises.

Scheme introduction

In the traceability system of drug information, it involves the cooperation of regulatory authorities, drug production enterprises, wholesale enterprises, retail enterprises, third-party technology enterprises and other parties.

Among them, the regulatory authorities and trade associations are in charge of supervision and guidance. The main task of pharmaceutical production, wholesale and retail enterprises is to implement the solution. The third-party technical service organization is mainly to supply software and hardware technical support. Consumers have the access to conveniently inquiring about drug information and give feedback on the usage.

By adding a unique barcode label to the drug and scanning and inputting/modifying the information with PDA, the information collection of the drug from production-wholesale-retail-usage can be accomplished, which allows drug information to be tracked and monitored in the whole process.

Customer Benefit

It is helpful for the regulatory authorities to strictly monitor the whole process of drugs from production, circulation, transportation, storage to consumption.

Real-time query of the specific flow direction of production, inventory, sales and logistics distribution of each box, each carton and each batch of drugs can be realized.

In case of problematic drugs, the batch, quantity, location, online production quantity and remaining inventory of them can be traced quickly, minimizing the recall cost.

Related cases

So far, Shenzhen University General Hospital, Fifth Hospital in Wuhan and other hospitals have adopted the drug traceability devices provided by iData.

Equipment recommendation

We recommend iData T1 and iData 95 for drug traceability.

Supporting the largest third-party information platform for drugs (code assured).

Large battery capacity, which can satisfy the customers' needs of long battery life.

Full screen/Keyboard device, which enriches customers' choice of models.

Professional scanning head: compatible with diverse codes including GSI/UDI.