Promote personalized medication use, making healthcare benefits through medicine more precise and tangible
2026-07-13
On July 10, the National Health Commission issued a notice stipulating that medical institutions capable of continuous medication information interoperability must organize patients’ medical histories and medication plans, combine medication monitoring data and treatment outcomes at different stages, distinguish contraindicated drugs and suitable dosage forms/specifications, and establish exclusive personalized medication information databases for every resident. Meanwhile, local regions are required to improve regional medical information platforms, unify drug and treatment data standards, and open channels for cross-hospital medication record retrieval, ensuring continuous medication management is effectively implemented.
Patients requiring long-term medication often face challenges due to the lack of personalized medication services. For example, many chronic disease patients need to visit community health centers, comprehensive hospitals, and specialized outpatient clinics repeatedly, but medication records across institutions remain isolated and non-interoperable. During each follow-up, patients can only rely on their own memory to recount past medication lists, easily leading to confusion over drug names and dosages, which may trigger issues like duplicate medication or drug interactions. Doctors prescribing medications “speak in their own dialects” (i.e., without coordinated communication), formulating medication plans based solely on patients’ fragmented verbal descriptions. This prevents doctors from fully grasping patients’ past medication adverse reactions and body tolerance levels, resulting in generalized medication advice that fails to align with individual physical conditions—both undermining long-term treatment efficacy and creating medication safety risks.
Establishing exclusive personalized medication information databases is an innovative measure that precisely addresses the pain points of long-term medication for patients. Dynamically updated electronic medication archives comprehensively retain all records of residents’ visits, prescriptions, and follow-ups. Regardless of which level of medical institution patients visit, attending physicians can quickly retrieve complete medication trajectories, clearly review drug allergy histories, past medication side effects, and various medication contraindications. Relying on comprehensive data support, doctors can tailor medication plans, eliminate conflicting drugs, and streamline medication types, reducing irrational medication use at the source.
Advancing personalized medication also drives comprehensive quality improvement in primary care pharmaceutical services. Through unified and interconnected regional medication data platforms, primary care medical personnel can track the overall medication status of chronic disease residents in their jurisdiction in real time. The system automatically pushes risk alerts for duplicate medication or drug incompatibility. Family doctors and basic public health service providers can also regularly conduct home visits for medication guidance and home-based pharmaceutical education. For special patients requiring regular monitoring of liver/kidney function or blood drug concentrations, relevant laboratory and testing data are synchronized into their archives, continuously tracking treatment outcomes and bringing refined, personalized medication services down to communities and extending them to households.
To effectively implement personalized medication services, multiple practical details and supporting gaps must be addressed. First, strictly safeguard the bottom line of residents’ health data security by setting tiered access permissions and properly protecting public medication privacy to avoid information leakage risks. Second, accelerate the upgrade of primary care information hardware, unify data collection and exchange standards across regions, and break down barriers of data fragmentation between different medical platforms. Additionally, accommodate digital operation challenges faced by elderly populations by simultaneously retaining offline paper medication records and arranging medical staff to assist with archive queries, running online and offline services in parallel to avoid digital barriers for seniors.
Healthcare benefits through medicine are not empty slogans but concrete safeguards embedded in every detail of diagnosis and treatment—prescribing, taking medication, and follow-ups. Personalized medication, with exclusive information databases as carriers, achieves “one person, one file; one person, one strategy,” making medical services move beyond generalized, one-size-fits-all approaches to become more precise and tangible. Steadily building and utilizing residents’ personalized medication archives, opening cross-institutional data sharing channels, and continuously improving supporting primary care pharmaceutical services will ensure that meticulous and comprehensive medication safeguards reach every household.
Edit：WENWEN Responsible editor：LINXUAN
Source：Beijing Youth Daily
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