ChinaSoft to build pharmaceutical information cloud with CITIC 21CN and Alibaba Cloud

HONG KONG, CHINA: ChinaSoft International Limited announced that it has signed a strategic agreement with CITIC 21CN Company Limited on the Pharmaceutical Information Sharing Program.

CITIC 21CN is a leading integrated information and content service provider in China and it provides product tracking and logistics information services to government authorities, manufacturers, pharmaceutical industry as well as consumers.

With the new good supply practice (GSP) regulation as a starting point, the strategic cooperation between ChinaSoft and CITIC 21CN aims to utilize cloud technology to further expand the application of electronic drug monitoring bar code to pharmaceutical retail sectors thereby realizing the goal of regulating and monitoring pharmaceutical product manufacturing and distribution process. This system will also enable electronic connection between health insurance and hospital information systems to share pharmaceutical information.

According to the cooperation agreement, ChinaSoft will work as the core integrator of the pharmaceutical information sharing platform, and will be responsible for overall demand research, overall integration solution design and preparation, and application integration and implementation.

Meanwhile, ChinaSoft and Alibaba Cloud will jointly assist CITIC 21CN to migrate its existing pharmaceutical information sharing platform to Alibaba cloud platform and conduct research and development on associated cloud applications. Through the cloud computing technology, the goal to improve business agility and reduce management complexity and control costs will be achieved, and the on-demand and scalable pharmaceutical information sharing cloud services will be provided.