Pharmacy Business for Future2012
Language:
Japanese
Product Code No:
C54113100
Issued In:
2012/09
#of Pages:
173
Publication Cycle:
Format:
PDF
Geographic Coverage:
Japan
Industry:
Coverage: (Product/service)
Pharmacies and dispensing chemists
Research Target:
pharmacies and dispensing chemists
Research Content:
I Current Status of and Direction of Changes for Pharmacies
Future of Pharmacies
n Changes in environment surrounding the industry
n Innovation of dispensing pharmacies
n Dilemma of pharmacy business
n Challenges of rising consumption taxes
n Influence of pursuing adequacy to drug costs
n Medical policy currently supports separation of dispensing from medical practice, but dispensing and medical practice should be interactive with each other
Current Pharmacy Business and Dispensing Chemists
n Current pharmacies are not fully functional
n Large pharmacy chains are integrating small-to-midsize pharmacies
n Dispensing chemists are becoming just another business persons
n What lacks in a current chemist as a healthcare professional
n OTC in a pharmacy business
Challenges of Pharmacies and Dispensing Chemists against New Systems
n New goals that are set for generic drugs
How Do Pharmacies Adapt to Increase of Home Care Services?
n Community based services
n Some pharmacies and dispensing chemists failing to keep up with community-based general care systems
Expansion of Pharmacy
n Switch from increase in numbers to expansion in size
n Improved service quality by building firm backyards
n Building of income base not relying too much on dispensing
n Number of pharmacies is now the same level as primary schools or post offices
To Live with Local Community
n Key for sustainable management is to heighten its presence in the community
n Pharmacy business that reflects local issues
II Business Managers of Pharmacies Looking to Future
Yasunori Iijima (CEO of Iijima Pharmacy)
n Listen carefully to every patient
n In order to survive, improvement of services for patients is important
n No special confusion in generic prescribing
n We are planning to place a day-care center within a pharmacy, where chemists with their children can work at, with their children nearby
n The goal is to increase sales of the existing pharmacies
n Current challenges are improvement in communication
Kenji Furuya （CEO of Holon Co., Ltd., Suzuran Pharmacy Group）
n “We want to be a pharmacy that is gentle and friendly with everyone”
n We do everything we can in home care
n If we go out to the patients’ place, we can secure patients without increasing the number of clinics
n Generic prescription is increasing
n Chemists are required to be gentle and kind
n Basically we would like to respond to any requests
Shinichi Yamamura (CEO of Primary Pharmacy, Chairman of Alliance of Pharmacy Executives)
n A pharmacy is the infrastructure of supplying medical products
n Pharmacies should cope adequately with changes in the needs of local people
n Lack of providing information on side effects stems from separation of dispensing from medical practice. Such information should be provided by pharmacies and chemists
n Community-based approach is what is indispensable for pharmacies
n Future pharmacies may gradually be disadvantageous business
III Pharmacies Coping with Changes (Case Studies)
Iijima Pharmacy (UedaCity in NaganoPrefecture)
n Survive as a community-based pharmacy
Kawada Pharmacy (Shinjuku in Tokyo)
n Aiming to be patient-oriented pharmacy
Soto Pharmacy at Tsukiguma Mall (FukuokaCity in FukuokaPrefecture)
n A pharmacy at a medical mall that takes advantages of being local and its spaciousness
Nakajima Pharmacy at Nishi 23 jo (ObihiroCity in Hokkaido)
n Considering privacy and effect of healing
Pharmacy Takegahana (FukuyamaCity in HiroshimaPrefecture)
n A patient-oriented pharmacy
Bohsei Tsukiji Pharmacy (Chuoku in Tokyo)
n Large pharmacy always aiming for being the top level
IV Cloud Computing Boosts Upscale Pharmacies
Cloud is the ICT Innovation for Pharmacies
n Pharmacies have already been using cloud computing
n A service to share prescription record of a patient enhances trust between a patient and a chemist
n Case study of pharmacies that have installed clouds
V Questionnaire to Dispensing Chemists