The launch of two DLT-enabled platforms in the cities of Kunshan and Fuzhou focussing on prescriptions and medical billing respectively, has further enlarged the growing role of blockchain technology in Chinese healthcare. Both systems were launched last month.
One innovation is a medical prescription app that has been developed by Suzhou Mobile and the Kunshan City Health Committee for the people of the south-eastern Kunshan City.
Chinese healthcare has been ridden with problems such as inefficient tracking systems for medicines and a paper-heavy approach to recording patient information. As a result, there’s a risk of records being tampered with or incomplete. By authenticating prescription information and being able to trace it back to the doctor who issued it, the medicine dispensing process becomes more secure and pharmacists are more confident that the medicines they dispense are for legitimate use.
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