Economic Times ( 02 April ) carries following news :
Extract :
India's
drug regulatory body is creating a national digital database of pharmaceutical
manufacturers and their medicines so that regulators can be more effective when
acting on problems like drug shortages and quality issues,
Central
Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) is finalising software for this and
plans to amend rules for drugs and cosmetics to make it mandatory for
manufacturers to regularly put details of their facilities and products in this
database, they said
“Now,
there is going to be a completely transparent system with proper data
management,” said a senior government official, adding that the primary
objective would be to get data on how many drug makers exist here
The new database would maintain names, addresses
and licences of all manufacturers, therapeutic categories of their medicines
and details like their dosages and forms, one of the sources said.
With this initiative , CDSCO has taken the first step
to implement :
3D - Digital Delivery of Drugs ? [ 11 Oct
2015 ]
whose advantages , I had listed as
follows :
ADVANTAGES
:
* Jobs / business of
Chemists / Druggists saved
* Great convenience for
patients / no need to visit Drug Store
* No chance of Chemist
" mis-interpreting " doctor's handwriting !
* Full History of
# Each Patient ( great benefit to Prescribing
doctors )
# Each Drug
( great benefit to Pharma Companies )
# Each Chemist
Shop ( great benefit to Govt / AIOCD / Tax
Dept )
# Each Doctor ( great interest to All India
Medical Association )
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April 2018
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