Preventing medication errors and the new stock visibility regulation are at the heart of the roadmap for medication digitization
Costaisa was present at the "Digitalization in Medication Management" conference organized by the Technology and Health Foundation together with the Spanish Federation of Healthcare Technology Companies (Fenin), which it represents, and which brought together the main players in the sector to discuss the situation of medication digitization in Spain. The Madrid Medical Association was the setting for a meeting that was attended by the Administration and representatives of the Spanish Medicines Agency, scientific societies, professional associations, reference hospitals and the medtech industry, among others.
The first roundtable discussion focused on the prevention of medication errors, as this continues to be a challenge that the sector has not been able to address with guarantees, at least until now, which Hospital Clínic and Costaisa plan to make available to healthcare providers in a few months a prescription assistant that is in the final stages of medical device certification. The data is overwhelming: medication errors cost 1.8 billion euros and the World Health Organization (WHO) has set a target of reducing medication errors by 50% in five years.
The new EU Regulation 2022/123 on stock visibility and demand for medicines was also a topic of discussion, as it is scheduled to come into force in February 2025 and the extent of its impact is still unknown. In principle, it is limited to a list of critical medicines and aims to prevent supply problems that could lead to a crisis and the supply of critical medicines in a public health crisis.
Also in this area, Costaisa has just developed Sanicost Cloud, a solution on SAP Business Technology Platform and natively integrated with S/4 Hana Cloud, which solves most of the invoicing and provisioning needs to request from Purchasing the material that is assigned to it at its delivery point, which is also connected to intelligent warehouses. It includes material requests, picking, delivery management, monitoring of errors in automatic consumption and placing orders from intelligent warehouses. In addition, it can be integrated via API with existing hospital information systems (HIS) and financial and economic management systems (ERP).