Non-face-to-face demonstration will be alternative relief ?

Ministry of Health and Welfare, willingness to prevent patient inconvenience cases due to the absence of doctors' prescription drugs and pharmacies

Possibility of review such as exemption from after-mortem notification of alternative agents and introduction of simpletion

While the non-face-to-face treatment pilot project started on the 1st, it is attracting attention that the government will "seek ways to use substitute drugs" as a way to prevent inconvenience caused by the lack of prescription drugs at the pharmacy near the patient after treatment.

 

There is a lot of interest in whether the alternative treatment simplification method can be implemented within the pilot project period, such as exempting the follow-up notification of alternative treatment limited to non-face-to-face treatment.

 

In particular, the government also announced that it will prepare guidelines such as banning automatic allocation of pharmacies after prescribing for non-face-to-face treatment platform management and regulation measures, and to induce improvement in case of problems after monitoring the platform by operating a pilot project advisory group such as the pharmaceutical society.

 

On the 1st, the Ministry of Health and Welfare answered a question about the non-face-to-face treatment operation plan of Rep.

 

Jeon Hye-sook, a member of the National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee.

 

First, the government said that it would use alternative drugs to prevent cases of inconvenience because the medicines prescribed by medical institutions that have performed non-face-to-face treatment are not in pharmacies located near the patient's area.

 

Starting from the pilot project, the method of receiving prescription drugs after the non-face-to-face treatment will be changed from delivery to the patient's (agent)'s direct visit to the pharmacy.

 

The government's will to minimize the situation where the pilot project has a hard time because there is no medicine in the pharmacy through alternative medicine.

 

In order to improve this inconvenience and lack, pharmacists are demanding that non-face-to-face treatment be allowed to 'simplify post-notification of replacement drugs' and 'prescribe ingredients'.

 

However, the Ministry of Health and Welfare did not take a specific position regarding the exemption of non-face-to-face treatment substitutes, the introduction of simpletion, or ingredient name prescriptions.

 

I answered only with the intention of using the alternative medicine system to solve the problem that occurs when non-face-to-face prescription drugs are not in pharmacies.

 

The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that it has prepared guidelines such as 'prohibition of automatic allocation of pharmacy' on ways to manage and control expedient, illegal, and deviant behavior of non-face-to-to-face treatment platforms.

 

In particular, he said that he would monitor the platform through the operation of a non-face-to-face treatment pilot project advisory group in which health and medical organizations such as the Korean Pharmaceutical Society participate, and would demand improvement if there were any problems.

 

However, the Ministry of Health and Welfare has made it clear that in order to impose legal obligations on platform laws, or to make effective regulations such as data submission requirements and corrective orders, it is necessary to legislate the institutionalization of non-face-to-face treatment.

 

The Ministry of Health and Welfare said it would "promote amendments to the health care law based on the legislation proposed by the National Assembly" regarding platform regulation.

 

The Ministry of Health and Welfare did not provide a specific position or method on the 'electronic prescription' that electronically transfers a prescription issued by a doctor to a patient-designated pharmacy after a non-face-to-face treatment.

 

"The method of sending and delivering prescriptions from medical institutions to pharmacies is to deliver faxes, e-mails, etc.

 

to pharmacies designated by patients," the Ministry of Health and Welfare explained.

 

In addition, during the pilot project period, we reaffirmed our position that it is in principle to implement non-face-to-face treatment with video treatment rather than telephone consultation.

 

He said that the principle of video treatment is to conduct non-face-to-face treatment as a 'means that can communicate with real-time video communication', not just by phone call or voice.

 

"Elderly people who have difficulty making voice calls or do not have smartphones can have non-face-to-face treatment with voice calls," the Ministry of Health and Welfare said.

 

It is read that even if a non-face-to-face patient lies that it is difficult to make a video call or does not have a smartphone, there is no way to specifically isolate or regulate it.

 

When asked if the government plans to support the cost of building a video care system for medical institutions during the pilot period, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said, "there is no separate cost support plan."