[China Pharmaceutical Network Enterprise News] According to Ali Health, there are two most common reasons for "one drug is difficult to find" on the market: one is that the production of drugs is restricted by factors such as raw materials, and the output is limited; the other is that the information on drug circulation is asymmetric and patients cannot be effective. Obtain medicine flow. To this end, as Alibaba's flagship platform in the medical and health field, Alibaba Health hopes to unite more partners to provide users with public welfare services that solve the problem of finding drugs. (Alibaba Health proposes to establish the "Global Alliance for Drug Discovery". Many pharmaceutical companies intend to join. Image source: Baidu Pictures) 　　 For rare disease patients, it is unfortunate that one in 100,000 chances of getting the disease fall on them. The sad thing is that scarce medicines that can cure diseases are still hard to buy. On July 26, Alibaba Health launched an initiative to establish a "Global Drug-Seeking Alliance", hoping to join hands with non-profit organizations, medical institutions, drug manufacturers, Internet applications and the media to serve as the "medicine-seeking team leader" to save people in distress. To provide a public welfare product for online real-time query of drug information for patients and their families, and ultimately achieve the goal of "let the world have no hard-to-find drugs". The invitation letter issued by Alibaba Health stated that the information in the pharmaceutical industry is asymmetrical, and it is not easy to find drugs for scarce drugs, but it is about life. It is hoped that more medical industry institutions, manufacturers, non-profit organizations and the media can join the global drug search alliance to save people from crisis. Captain looking for medicine. It is understood that after the invitation was issued, Sinopharm Online, the Center for Rare Disease Development (CORD), Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group, Baixiu Pharmacy, Quanyuantang Pharmacy, Chunyu International and many other pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, public welfare organizations and Ali Health have interacted , Expressing willingness to join the "Global Drug Alliance".　　 Ali Health introduced that the two most common reasons for "one drug is hard to find" on the market are: one is that the production of drugs is restricted by factors such as raw materials, and the output is limited; the other is that the information of drug circulation is asymmetric, and patients cannot effectively obtain the flow of drugs.　　 Regarding the first type, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and other 9 departments recently issued the "Implementation Opinions on Reforming and Improving the Supply Guarantee Mechanism for Shortage Drugs", which clearly stated that the supply of shortage drugs should be guaranteed through various methods such as designated production, coordinated emergency production and import. However, it will take time to solve the problem; for the second type, as long as the information-symmetric drug-seeking service is provided, the drug demand can be solved immediately.　　 For this reason, as Alibaba's flagship platform in the medical and health field, Alibaba Health hopes to unite with more partners to provide users with public welfare services that solve the problem of finding drugs. Prior to this, Alibaba Health cooperated with Sinopharm Online, which is rich in drug information, to develop non-profit drug-seeking products to meet the drug-seeking needs of some users. From the search results during the operation period, the drugs that users usually need to query are mainly hospital prescription drugs, scarce drugs, imported drugs, and orphan drugs. However, due to the scattered information of drug circulation, the cooperation between the two companies alone cannot meet the needs of finding scarce drugs.　　 It is reported that at present, the first phase of the "Looking for Medicine Captain" product has been launched on the Alibaba Group's Ali Health app, mobile Taobao, and Alipay. On the mobile phone Taobao, enter "Looking for Medicine Captain" in the search box to go directly to the page for finding drugs. On the Ali health app, you can find "Finding Captain for Medicine" on the homepage. The user can search by entering the generic name or product name of the drug.