This technology will revolutionize the sector, at all levels, in a short time.

The current BIDI codes for drug packaging are already #blockchain #technology.

Control the #traceability of a product from its manufacture to the end customer.  This identification of each step of the process prevents forgeries.

The code linked to the Health Card and electronic prescriptions controls the final stretch from the pharmacy to the end user of the drug.

The blockchain would allow a secure dispensing from anywhere, in any pharmacy.  Patient and dispenser are perfectly identified, even the logistics used to bring the drugs from the pharmacy to the patient is controlled at all times with the traceability record of the entire process.

Likewise, this procedure will carry out the billing of electronic prescriptions from pharmacies to the Administration.  Finally without bureaucracy, the use of duct tape, cutters and coupon clipping.

It will make the pharmacy automated to levels that can already be intuited: the dispensing robots and management programs will be coordinated to take care of all these tasks without added value and without human intervention.  Even the issuance of replacement orders to suppliers and the communication of the means of payment to those orders.

So, should pharmacies become great vending machines?

Absolutely not!

How many times have we heard the complaints that a pharmacist is just a grocer with a college degree?

Well, a time begins in which the pharmacist will have the opportunity to reinvent himself as a liberal professional and overcome that topic.

Those who follow us know that we advocate for professional services based on pharmaceutical advice.

These services will be those that maintain specialized employment in the sector.

It will be necessary to offer pharmacotherapeutic follow-up (because the medical records of the patients may also be available), everything that they imagine that can prestige their health work and, above all, dedicate all their working hours to the client.

Yes, these services are already offered … while other operations must be carried out.  The customer, sometimes, remains in the background, waiting only for his bag and without interacting with the person who attends him, just what must be avoided.

It will change the way you interact with the customer through the counter, we assume that it will make it disappear as we know it now.

All this also implies a greater and simpler control of the Administration over all those involved in the channel, including the patient.  Which implies that it will force to work with greater rigor and respect for dispensing standards.

And it also implies new management models, changes in spending criteria and investment priorities.

We will talk about it.

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