Project Description
As part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021–2026 of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, which includes the programme for Strengthening the Resilience of the Healthcare System, a project has been launched to develop a system for monitoring and preventing medicine shortages in Croatia (reference number: 8. C5.1.R4-I4).
The Monitoring and Preventing Medicine Shortages (MPMS) system acts as a national interoperability platform and a single point of access to data on medicine trade, stock, and supply plans at a national level, providing advanced analytics to help analysts forecast, prevent or effectively manage medicine shortages. Additionally, the MPMS system shows seasonal and territorial consumption of medicines and assists in detecting anomalies in public health.
The MPMS system allows for interoperability and data exchange with the existing national medicine register (eMedicines) to retrieve information on the pharmaceutical content of medicine and replacement medicines as supplemental information for MPMS users to facilitate their analytics. For the integration and data exchange with the parties (which include wholesalers, pharmacies, and hospitals), the appropriate MPMS services and data specification were developed during the project. Powered by blockchain technology, MPMS system allows for different manners of data collection and visibility to comply with the business strategies and policies of the reporting entities.
The MPMS system enables the creation of predefined and customized reports for national purposes as well as for reporting to EU institutions including EMA (European Medicines Agency), adjusts information support for managing medicine shortages, and facilitates communication of stakeholders.
The MPMS system provides access for key stakeholders involved in medicine distribution monitoring (e.g. Ministry of Health, Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices, Croatian Chamber of Pharmacists, Croatian Health Insurance Fund etc.), and enables the collection of relevant and available data across the medicine distribution chain, as the foundation for the MPMS analytics and reporting related to medicine supply, consumption and shortages.
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