How is the non-face-to-face tx/delivery going overseas?

Introduced in the Medical Association Medical Policy Research Institute's 'Non-face-to-face Treatment Prerequisites Study'

Most Country Pledge Delivery Allowed

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With the platform industry and the medical community preparing first ahead of the institutionalization of non-face-to-face treatment next year, calls for measures to be prepared for drug delivery are gaining momentum.

 

A recent study report titled "Non-face-to-face treatment prerequisites" by the Korean Medical Association's Medical Policy Institute (Director Woo Bong-sik), which argued that ▲ face-to-face treatment principles, ▲ non-face-to-face treatment, and non-face-to-face treatment should be an auxiliary means ▲ national health security medical association.

 

"Most countries allow drug delivery," the Korea Institute for Medical Policy said.

 

"The government is also in a position that it is difficult to proceed with non-face-to-face treatment and drug delivery in a separate policy, but recently, it is necessary to address drug concerns and devise measures to increase the effectiveness of the policy." It also introduced overseas cases such as Japan, Australia, Britain, France, the United States, Canada, China, and India.

 

In fact, it was found that drug delivery was allowed in Japan, Australia, the United States, and China due to COVID-19.

 

In Japan, as the amount of non-face-to-face treatment increased after COVID-19, drug delivery was officially allowed through joint notification by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's Medical Policy Bureau and the Pharmaceutical and Household Sanitation Bureau on April 1, 2020.

 

Japan is a country in the form of voluntary division of labor, and when prescribed in the hospital, it can be delivered directly from the medical institution to the patient's home For out-of-house prescriptions, the prescription must be faxed to the pharmacy, and the original prescription must also be sent separately to the pharmacy.

 

After consulting with the patient on medication guidance, pharmacists should prepare appropriate ways to deliver drugs that need special attention and drugs that need rapid delivery, or ask the patient's family to visit the pharmacy.

 

From April 17, 2020, Australia will also be able to receive prescriptions by text message, email, or fax after non-face-to-face treatment.

 

The prescription allows the patient himself or his guardian to go to the pharmacy or receive the medicine home after sending it to the pharmacy he or she wants.

 

If you do not know which pharmacy to send the prescription to, the doctor who treated the patient can suggest a pharmacy in the area or the patient can directly search for a pharmacy in the area using the Health Direct website to select a pharmacy.

 

NHS Digital in the UK abolished the paper prescription issuance system in November 2019 and began issuing electronic prescription services (EPS).

 

After GP treatment, the patient can receive the medicine at the pharmacy by sending the prescription to the pharmacy designated by the patient.

 

When taking drugs regularly, repeated prescriptions are issued, and even if you take all of them, you can order them when necessary without follow-up treatment with your GP until the next drug prescription review.

 

However, only if the GP sets these prescriptions, the patient can request the drug delivery to the pharmacy, and if the drug delivery service is provided by the pharmacy designated by the patient, the drug can be received by courier.

 

France provides drug delivery services to non-face-to-face patients.

 

After non-face-to-face treatment, use the Ordo Express app to scan the prescription and send an electronic signature.

 

The app is sent in the form of an e-mail and an encrypted prescription is sent to the pharmacist selected by the patient to ensure safety.

 

Drugs can be delivered to the patient's home or workplace, and drugs can be delivered to all types of drugs, except drugs, regardless of the presence or absence of prescription.

 

At this time, patients can track their drug delivery process in real time and contact the delivery agent in charge through a real-time chat system to shorten the delivery process.

 

In the United States, doctors are required to send prescriptions to pharmacies selected by patients using e-mail or smartphones after non-face-to-face treatment.

 

After Amazon Pharmacy, an online pharmacy, was officially launched in 2020, a prescription drug delivery service was launched, and the medicine is delivered to the patient's home on the same day.

 

In addition, pick-up services through drive-through were actively introduced to pharmacies in the wake of COVID-19, and the unmanned autonomous vehicle "Nuro R2" was used to deliver medicines to reduce unnecessary face-to-face contact and ensure accurate and safe delivery of necessary medicines.

 

In February 2020, the U.S.

 

federal government implemented special measures to allow unmanned autonomous vehicles to enter public roads in order to deploy autonomous vehicles in the COVID-19 situation, allowing them to receive drug delivery, starting with Nuro headquarters in California.

 

Canada is one of the countries where non-face-to-face treatment is active.

 

Canada requires doctors to send prescriptions to the pharmacy they want by fax or e-mail after non-face-to-face treatment.

 

When a patient is ready to pick up the drug, he or she can be notified through a non-face-to-face treatment app or delivered directly to the patient's home.

 

Among Canadians, it was found that one in three people who used non-face-to-face treatment were using non-face-to-face treatment for prescribing and delivering drugs.

 

In China, the ban on online sales of drugs was lifted in 2018, and the policy of using Internet hospitals was announced.

 

It is a government-level intervention, and the State Council, the National Health Commission, and the National Insurance Service have changed their policy of delivering drugs after non-face-to-face treatment, stressing the importance of actively expanding and succeeding in Internet hospital work covered by health insurance.

 

In China, if a doctor issues a prescription after receiving medical treatment at an Internet hospital designated by a state-run health agency in each province, a pharmacist in the in-house screening department can check electronic prescription and deliver the medicine to the patient or receive it directly from a nearby pharmacy.

 

In China, online re-examination prescriptions can be issued only for general and chronic diseases diagnosed with the disease in face-to-face first-time visits in advance.

 

In China, Internet hospitals have become a service platform that integrates online treatment and counseling, prescription and drug delivery, and online and offline diagnosis and treatment.

 

India's Ministry of Health has allowed the delivery of medicines listed in e-mail prescriptions sent from hospitals to pharmacies to the patient's front door after the announcement of a notice on drug delivery permits for non-face-to-face care in March 2020.

 

However, certain antibiotics and psychotropic drugs cannot be delivered.

 

The Institute for Medical Policy said, "In order to achieve the purpose of the non-face-to-face treatment policy, drug delivery should be allowed.

 

"Since there are many concerns and opposition from the pharmaceutical society, it is necessary to devise measures to address the concerns of the pharmaceutical society and increase the effectiveness of the policy," he explained.