The health sector is always vital, as it directly relates to the health of citizens. The impact of the response to this sector is not limited to financial losses that can be recovered, but it can cause many individuals to lose their lives as a result of the circulation of counterfeit medicines or the use of medicines that have expired. For this reason, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has taken firm measures by establishing an integrated monitoring system aimed at regulating the medical sector and the pharmaceutical industry in a way that enhances the ability to confront all forms of fraud and manipulation. This article highlights some aspects of this system in detail to understand how it contributes to ensuring the quality and safety of health services.
1. What is Rasd platform?
“Rasd” is a digital platform that aims to improve the quality and safety of medicines through an effective system for electronic tracking. Monitoring the safety of medicines, and combating counterfeiting and the use of expired medicines. Electronic tracking can contribute to enhancing transparency and improving the level of accountability in the pharmaceutical supply chain, thus contributing to maintaining patient health.
“Rasd” is a digital platform that aims to improve the quality and safety of medicines through an effective system for electronic tracking. Monitoring the safety of medicines, and combating counterfeiting and the use of expired medicines. Electronic tracking can contribute to enhancing transparency and improving the level of accountability in the pharmaceutical supply chain, thus contributing to maintaining patient health.
1. Monitoring functions include following medicines through the stages of the supply chain, from manufacturing or import to the final consumer.
2. Electronic tracking provides accurate information about the location of the drug at each stage, which contributes to enhancing transparency and accountability.
3. The user can use the platform for quick access to information and interaction if any problem or error is discovered.
4. “Monitoring” contributes to preventing errors, forgery and adulteration in the pharmaceutical supply chain through continuous monitoring and inspection.
5. The system enhances safety and confidence in consuming medicines, protects patients’ health and reduces the risks resulting from the use of counterfeit or expired medicines.
2. Electronic tracking provides accurate information about the location of the drug at each stage, which contributes to enhancing transparency and accountability.
3. The user can use the platform for quick access to information and interaction if any problem or error is discovered.
4. “Monitoring” contributes to preventing errors, forgery and adulteration in the pharmaceutical supply chain through continuous monitoring and inspection.
5. The system enhances safety and confidence in consuming medicines, protects patients’ health and reduces the risks resulting from the use of counterfeit or expired medicines.
The importance of monitoring platform
The "Rasd" platform holds great importance in several aspects related to the field of health care and the pharmaceutical industry. Here are some points that highlight the importance of this platform:
2. The unique capabilities of the Rasd system in securing medicine and making it always available to citizens
· Providing comprehensive data on the availability of medicines to consumers to enable them to check whether they can obtain the required medicines.
· Providing consumers with knowledge of the locations of pharmacies that contain the required medications through mobile phone applications to facilitate the process of obtaining medications.
· Improving manufacturing procedures to achieve higher efficiency and reduce drug waste, with an emphasis on adhering to high standards of production quality.
· Disseminate effective instructions to consumers on how to use medicines correctly, reducing waste resulting from misuse.
· Employing advanced technology and operational procedures to reduce medication waste and improve its utilization.
· Imposing an obligation on pharmaceutical factories and stores to maintain a strategic stock to ensure continuity of production in emergency situations, while achieving a balance between supply and demand.
· Providing comprehensive data on the availability of medicines to consumers to enable them to check whether they can obtain the required medicines.
· Providing consumers with knowledge of the locations of pharmacies that contain the required medications through mobile phone applications to facilitate the process of obtaining medications.
· Improving manufacturing procedures to achieve higher efficiency and reduce drug waste, with an emphasis on adhering to high standards of production quality.
· Disseminate effective instructions to consumers on how to use medicines correctly, reducing waste resulting from misuse.
· Employing advanced technology and operational procedures to reduce medication waste and improve its utilization.
· Imposing an obligation on pharmaceutical factories and stores to maintain a strategic stock to ensure continuity of production in emergency situations, while achieving a balance between supply and demand.
3. How does a monitoring system reduce drug fraud to its lowest levels?
· The medicines available in pharmacies are checked periodically to ensure that they comply with the health specifications required for their consumption by patients.
· Medicines with frequent cases of fraud are monitored, and the authorities responsible for this fraud are made available in an easily accessible database to facilitate verification of these medicines and facilitate the tracking process for their disposal.
· Medicines are tracked throughout the supply chain journey to detect any attempts to replace or augment them with other spoiled or falsified medicines at any stage.
· The circulation of medicines that have been withdrawn from the market is prohibited to prevent the market shortage from being compensated with adulterated and unfit for consumption substitutes.
· Consumers have the means to verify the safety of a drug before consuming it.
· The system allows consumers to be informed of any complications that may occur after using the drug, to enhance transparency and safety of pharmaceutical products.
4. Improving the performance of pharmacies by developing the administrative aspects of the medical system
This development includes a focus on administrative aspects, as improvements in these aspects can be the main driver for enhancing efficiency and improving the delivery of pharmaceutical services
· Improve inventory management:
Enhance supply efficiency and ensure availability of medicines by improving effective inventory management.
Enhance supply efficiency and ensure availability of medicines by improving effective inventory management.
· Providing detailed data support and reports:
Provide support by providing detailed data and reports to illustrate the dynamics between supply and demand in the markets, especially for medicines with high demand.
Provide support by providing detailed data and reports to illustrate the dynamics between supply and demand in the markets, especially for medicines with high demand.
· Organizing transaction processes:
Organizing and facilitating transactions between suppliers, pharmacies and buyers to ensure smooth operations.
Organizing and facilitating transactions between suppliers, pharmacies and buyers to ensure smooth operations.
· Adopting global coding methods:
Using a global coding system such as GLN for positioning and adopting GTIN from GS1, in addition to switching to using 2D barcodes instead of linear barcodes to ensure the security and reliability of monitoring and tracking operations.
Using a global coding system such as GLN for positioning and adopting GTIN from GS1, in addition to switching to using 2D barcodes instead of linear barcodes to ensure the security and reliability of monitoring and tracking operations.
· Advanced technology to reduce drug fraud:
Using modern technologies, such as 2D barcodes, to enhance ease of monitoring and eliminate drug counterfeiting.
Using modern technologies, such as 2D barcodes, to enhance ease of monitoring and eliminate drug counterfeiting.
How DocSuite helps monitor platform
The Doc Suite system effectively contributes to achieving drug safety and making it permanently available to citizens through its integration with the Rasd platform. Here's how DocSuite helps enhance drug monitoring efforts:
The Doc Suite system effectively contributes to achieving drug safety and making it permanently available to citizens through its integration with the Rasd platform. Here's how DocSuite helps enhance drug monitoring efforts:
1- Workflow feature
Through the DocSuite system, a customized workflow can be created that includes all the different stages in the pharmaceutical supply chain. This allows the organization to accurately track the movement of medicines, with the ability to record key information at each stage. This information can include production date, storage location, expiration dates, and more. Audit tasks and stages can be set to ensure compliance with standards and verify the safety of medicines. This gives the monitoring platform the ability to react in real time to any challenges that arise along the supply chain, which are key aspects for improving
Through the DocSuite system, a customized workflow can be created that includes all the different stages in the pharmaceutical supply chain. This allows the organization to accurately track the movement of medicines, with the ability to record key information at each stage. This information can include production date, storage location, expiration dates, and more. Audit tasks and stages can be set to ensure compliance with standards and verify the safety of medicines. This gives the monitoring platform the ability to react in real time to any challenges that arise along the supply chain, which are key aspects for improving
Inventory Management
Through the approvals and approvals system, inventory management and medication tracking are improved on a regular basis. The monitoring platform can rely on this information to check drug availability and avoid supply shortages.
Through the approvals and approvals system, inventory management and medication tracking are improved on a regular basis. The monitoring platform can rely on this information to check drug availability and avoid supply shortages.
· Track medications across stages
DocSuite offers cross-team integration features, enabling the monitoring platform to efficiently track the movement of medicines across the various stages of the supply chain.
DocSuite offers cross-team integration features, enabling the monitoring platform to efficiently track the movement of medicines across the various stages of the supply chain.
· Check expiry dates
By setting expiration dates on medications and alerting users, DocSuite helps improve the monitoring platform for expired medications.
By setting expiration dates on medications and alerting users, DocSuite helps improve the monitoring platform for expired medications.
· Facilitating distribution and delivery
DocSuite enables the transportation and logistics operations for drug distribution to be organized effectively, which helps the Rasd platform achieve effective drug provision.
DocSuite enables the transportation and logistics operations for drug distribution to be organized effectively, which helps the Rasd platform achieve effective drug provision.
· Reporting and analysis
Providing the feature of building reports and analyzing data enables the monitoring platform to analyze the performance of the supply chain and improve it continuously.
Providing the feature of building reports and analyzing data enables the monitoring platform to analyze the performance of the supply chain and improve it continuously.
In this way, the Doc Suite monitoring platform helps enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of monitoring efforts, which enhances the safety of medicines and their continuous availability to citizens.
2- Building reports
Monitoring supply and demand enhances the DocSuite system by providing accurate statistics on the trading of formulations. The Rasd platform enables you to make the most of this information through the report building feature that provides a comprehensive analysis of trends in the pharmaceutical market. Users can create custom reports based on available statistics, enabling them to:
Monitoring supply and demand enhances the DocSuite system by providing accurate statistics on the trading of formulations. The Rasd platform enables you to make the most of this information through the report building feature that provides a comprehensive analysis of trends in the pharmaceutical market. Users can create custom reports based on available statistics, enabling them to:
· Analysis of market trends
Thanks to building reports in DocSuite, the monitoring team can accurately analyze demand and supply trends. They can identify market patterns and react to immediate changes to ensure needs are met effectively.
Thanks to building reports in DocSuite, the monitoring team can accurately analyze demand and supply trends. They can identify market patterns and react to immediate changes to ensure needs are met effectively.
· Directing operational policies
By using reports based on accurate statistics, those responsible for the monitoring platform can better guide operational policies. They can make strategic decisions based on data analysis to ensure the optimal balance between production and demand.
By using reports based on accurate statistics, those responsible for the monitoring platform can better guide operational policies. They can make strategic decisions based on data analysis to ensure the optimal balance between production and demand.
· Determine strategic inventory levels
Building reports provides signals about the need to adjust inventory levels. The platform can monitor order updates and adjust inventory based on these reports to achieve improved resource management.
Building reports provides signals about the need to adjust inventory levels. The platform can monitor order updates and adjust inventory based on these reports to achieve improved resource management.
In this way, the report building feature in the Doc Suite system is a powerful tool that supports the Rasd platform in making more accurate and effective decisions based on a comprehensive analysis of supply and demand.
3- Management of medical institutions
· Enhancing the effectiveness of operations
The Doc Suite system contributes to enhancing the effectiveness of operations through the medical institution management system. The medical system can provide support for daily operations such as patient scheduling and task allocation, leading to improved resource allocation. Thanks to this integration, the Health Monitoring Platform team benefits greatly from improved productivity and maximum utilization of production capacities in all conditions, as operations are better organized according to the needs of clinics and patients.
· Enhancing the effectiveness of operations
The Doc Suite system contributes to enhancing the effectiveness of operations through the medical institution management system. The medical system can provide support for daily operations such as patient scheduling and task allocation, leading to improved resource allocation. Thanks to this integration, the Health Monitoring Platform team benefits greatly from improved productivity and maximum utilization of production capacities in all conditions, as operations are better organized according to the needs of clinics and patients.
· Task Management
The medical system can also improve overall task management, allowing the health monitoring team to focus on critical activities, improving patient experience, and delivering better health services.
The medical system can also improve overall task management, allowing the health monitoring team to focus on critical activities, improving patient experience, and delivering better health services.
In conclusion, it is clear that the Doc Suite system is the ideal partner for the monitoring platform in improving the effectiveness of operations and ensuring the permanent and safe availability of medicines to citizens. With its pioneering features such as report building and task management, DocSuite contributes to enhancing transparency and efficiency in the pharmaceutical supply chain. This effective integration of the two systems allows for improved resource management and improved overall quality of healthcare. Therefore, DocSuite represents an innovative and effective solution to improve performance and enhance patient safety in the healthcare sector.