Media Coverage of the Press Release, “Philippine FDA becomes the first in Asia to use mobile app to

transform pharmacies”

A Dossier

Prepared by:

mClinica Health Solutions, Inc

Presented to:

The Food and Drug Administration of the Philippines

29 August 2017

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Table of Contents

I. List of Articles

A. Canadian Inquirer 3

B. Diyaryo Pinoy 4

C. Pilipino Star Ngayon 5

D. Abante-Tonite 6

E. Philippine News Agency 8

F. Rappler 10

G. MetroCebu 12

H. Manila Times 14

II. Social Media Feedback 16

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I. List of Articles

A. Canadian Inquirer

Items Contents

Publication Canadian Inquirer

Link http://www.canadianinquirer.net/2017/08/25/fda-launches-electronic-logbook-app/

Publication Date August 25, 2017

Headline FDA launches electronic logbook app

Author Not identified

Content MANILA – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a mobile application that would eliminate paper logbooks and collect data and life-saving insights.

According to FDA director general Nela Charade Puno, the “Electronic Logbook” app, which was donated by the health tech startup mClinica, would help modernize the FDA and the country’s public health sector.

“It can help the FDA ensure strict compliance with national regulations, perform recalls in real time, and reduce counterfeits and expired medicine, among other things,” Puno said in a news release issued Thursday.

She noted that for the past 50 years, pharmacists have lost precious time with patients filling out handwritten paper logbooks to comply with local laws requiring them to document patient prescriptions.

This bureaucratic process is also a challenge for the FDA as it monitors more than 10,000 active pharmacies across the country, Puno said.

The Electronic Logbook, which is accessible by mobile phone, will digitize prescriptions and use image recognition and artificial intelligence technology.

Puno said it can protect patients by monitoring their real-time use of prescription drugs, quickly recalling dangerous drugs, and reducing counterfeit and expired medicine.

It also lets pharmacists spend more time with patients by cutting paper bureaucracy and gives policymakers and researchers data that show disease outbreaks and medication trends as they occur in real time, she said.

To illustrate how it works, Puno said the Electronic Logbook can monitor a patient’s purchase and use of medicine. By finding out that one in every three patients buys fewer antibiotic pills than the number prescribed by the doctor, the app can assess if a patient is at risk of developing antimicrobial resistance.

This would help the government gain fresh insights on how to better target and treat public health problems, Puno said.

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B. Diyaryo Pinoy

Items Contents

Publication Diyaryo Pinoy

Link https://issuu.com/diyaryopinoy/docs/diyaryo_pinoy_aug25

Publication Date August 25, 2017

Headline Philippine FDA becomes the first in Asia to use mobile app to transform pharmacies

Author Not identified

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Content

C. Pilipino Star Ngayon

Items Contents

Publication Pilipino Star Ngayon

Link http://www.philstar.com:8080/bansa/2017/08/25/1732470/digital-prescription-

ilulunsad-ng-fda

Publication Date August 25, 2017, 12:00 am

Headline

Digital prescription ilulunsad ng FDA

Author Danilo Garcia

Content MANILA, Philippines - Upang makatipid sa oras, papel at higit na makapagligtas ng buhay, ipatutupad ng Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) ang “Electronic Logbook” na isang mobile application para sa modernisasyon ng “pharmacy sector” sa bansa.

Sinabi ni FDA Director General Nela Charade Puno na tatanggalin ng E-Logbook apps ang “paper bureaucracy” sa pagrereseta ng mga gamot sa mga pasyente habang makakalolekta ng mga importanteng datos na maaaring magamit sa pagliligtas ng buhay.

Sa tala ng FDA, nasa 10,000 aktibong botika sa bansa ang kanilang mino-monitor habang nasa 50 taon nang nauubos ang kanilang oras sa pagpuno sa mga “logbooks” upang makatupad sa batas ukol sa “patient prescriptions”.

Ipinaliwanag ng FDA na ang E-Logbook ay isang mobile application na ginagawang digital ang mga preskripsyon gamit ang mga smartphones. Donasyon ang application ng mClinica, isang bagong HealthTech na kumpanya sa Southeast Asia

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na nagdi-develop ng mga mobile technology.

Kabilang sa magagawa ng E-Logbook ang pag-digitalize sa mga preskripsyon at mabilis na pagpapadala ng mga datos sa mga gamot; proteksyon sa mga pasyente sa pag-monitor sa paggamit ng resetang mga gamot, mabilis na pag-recall sa mga mapanganib na mga droga, at pagsawata sa pagkalat ng mga peke at expired na mga gamot.

Sa pamamagitan din nito, mas magiging madali na rin ang pagkolekta ng mga datos ukol sa mga outbreaks ng sakit para magamit ng mga mananaliksik at gumagawa ng polisiya.

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D. Abante-Tonite

Items Contents

Publication Abante-Tonite

Link http://www.abante-tonite.com/mobile-apps-na-reseta-ipatutupad.htm

Publication Date August 25, 2017, 12:02 am

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Headline Mobile apps na reseta ipapatupad

Author Juliet de Loza- Cudia

Content Gagamit na ang Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) ng “Electronic Logbook” mobile

application para makatipid sa oras, papel at higit na makapagligtas ng buhay.

Ayon kay FDA Director General Nela Charade, bahagi rin ito ng hakbang para sa

modernisasyon ng ‘pharmacy sector’ sa Pilipinas.

Nabatid na tatanggalin ng E-Logbook apps ang ‘paper bureaucracy’ sa pagrereseta

ng mga gamot sa mga pasyente habang makakakolekta ng mga importanteng

datos na maaaring magamit sa pagliligtas ng buhay.

Nalaman sa tala ng FDA, nasa 10,000 aktibong botika sa 7,000 isla sa bansa ang

kanilang mino-monitor habang nasa 50 taon nang nauubos ang kanilang oras sa

pagpuno sa mga ‘logbooks’ upang makatupad sa batas ukol sa ‘patient

prescriptions’.

Ang E-Logbook ay ilalagay sa mobile application na ginagawang digital ang mga

preskripsyon gamit ang mga smartphones.

Nabatid ang nabanggit na mobile apps ay mula sa isang bagong HealthTeach na

kumpanya sa Southeast Asia na nagdi-develop ng mga mobile technology.

Kabilang sa magagawa ng E-Logbook ang pag-digitalize sa mga preskripsyon at

mabilis na pagpapadala ng mga datos sa mga gamot na makakapagsagip sa

buhay; proteksyon sa mga pasyente sa pag-monitor sa paggamit ng resetang mga

gamot, mabilis na pag-recall sa mga mapanganib na mga droga, at pagsawata sa

pagkalat ng mga peke at expired na mga gamot.

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E. Philippine News Agency

Items Contents

Publication Philippine News Agency (PNA)

Link http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1007365public-health/347406/

Publication Date August 25, 2017, 1:40pm

Headline FDA launches electronic logbook app

Author Not identified

Content MANILA – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a mobile application that would eliminate paper logbooks and collect data and life-saving insights.

According to FDA director general Nela Charade Puno, the “Electronic Logbook” app, which was donated by the health tech startup mClinica, would help modernize the FDA and the country’s public health sector.

“It can help the FDA ensure strict compliance with national regulations, perform recalls in real time, and reduce counterfeits and expired medicine, among other

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things,” Puno said in a news release issued Thursday.

She noted that for the past 50 years, pharmacists have lost precious time with patients filling out handwritten paper logbooks to comply with local laws requiring them to document patient prescriptions.

This bureaucratic process is also a challenge for the FDA as it monitors more than 10,000 active pharmacies across the country, Puno said.

The Electronic Logbook, which is accessible by mobile phone, will digitize prescriptions and use image recognition and artificial intelligence technology.

Puno said it can protect patients by monitoring their real-time use of prescription drugs, quickly recalling dangerous drugs, and reducing counterfeit and expired medicine.

It also lets pharmacists spend more time with patients by cutting paper bureaucracy and gives policymakers and researchers data that show disease outbreaks and medication trends as they occur in real time, she said.

To illustrate how it works, Puno said the Electronic Logbook can monitor a patient’s purchase and use of medicine. By finding out that one in every three patients buys fewer antibiotic pills than the number prescribed by the doctor, the app can assess if a patient is at risk of developing antimicrobial resistance.

This would help the government gain fresh insights on how to better target and treat public health problems, Puno said.

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F. Rappler

Items Contents

Publication Rappler

Link https://www.rappler.com/nation/180136-fda-electronic-logbook

Publication Date August 26, 2017, 8:44pm

Updated Date August 27, 2017, 2:03pm

Updated the names of the following:

FDA Director General Nela Charade Galang-Puno and Mr. Paulo Martin Santos

Headline FDA to roll out mobile app digitizing logbooks in pharmacies

Author Mara Cepeda

Content MANILA, Philippines – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is eyeing to implement this year a mobile application that will digitize the logbooks in pharmacies nationwide. Southeast Asian healthcare data startup mClinica donated the FDA Electronic Logbook to the government agency. Only pharmacists and the FDA will have access to the app. (READ: Southeast Asian startup mClinica raises $6.3M for global expansion) Farouk Meralli, mClinica chief executive officer, said the application will allow pharmacies to forego manually recording prescriptions in paper logbooks. The FDA, in turn, will have easy access to crucial public health data that could help it craft better programs. “[Manually recording prescriptions] creates a real problem for pharmacists who are tasked with the responsibility of logging all of these information. And instead of spending time with patients, they're spending time with paper. The FDA has a similar set of challenges in the sense that they have to supervise more than 10,000 pharmacies across 7,000 islands,” Meralli told Rappler. “So what we thought about [is] how we could digitize this prescription logbook. And in real time provide all of these information from across the country in a centralized manner and help the FDA with decision-making and information to take action to help the FIlipino people,” he said. The FDA and mClinica conducted a pilot testing of the app in 56 pharmacies in Metro Manila earlier this year. They discovered that most tuberculosis patients in these pharmacies only buy 30 tablets out of the needed 160 to 180 tablets needed to complete their treatment. The same goes for antibiotics, wherein patients only buy one to 6 pills out of the total 21 pills usually prescribed by doctors. “We are starting to understand how disease like tuberculosis are treated in the private sector, how patients actually take their medicine, how they stay on treatment, or in this case, don't stay on treatment. And that helps us solve the underlying causes of TB in this country,” said Meralli. FDA director general Nela Charade Puno said they are hoping to begin rolling out the Electronic Logbook app by the end of the year. For now, they are still ironing out

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some details regarding the donation status of the app. “It's in its final stages. It's a matter of basically just looking at the legalities of it. Because it is a donation, so we do not rush the whole thing,” she said. Fighting counterfeits, helping disaster teams The FDA Electronic Logbook app will give real-time alerts to pharmacies when a particular medicine is recalled by the FDA as well. “The other thing it helps us to understand is really things like counterfeit, making sure that the supply chain is clean and safe for Filipinos nationwide. We have the ability now to detect what counterfeits are being distributed in the pharmaceutical supply chain and ensure that these are stamped down,” said Meralli Puno added the Electronic Logbook app will also help government response teams in times of disasters. The app will make it easier to determine the availability of drugs per pharmacy, per area. “If we have this app available, it will be easy for all these rescuers to identify which pharmacies have these important antibiotics or life-saving drugs, which areas can they access to provide these to all those who need it during emergency situations,” she said. For Paulo Martin Santos, FDA chief technology innovation officer, the FDA Electronic Logbook will help them provide the right medicines to Filipino households. “In a nutshell, it's more of a safer community because you get to buy the right medicine for you. We will be able to protect you by tracking down [the movement of the drug] from one drug store and the consumer,” he said. “If the consumer buys that drug from an unregistered establishment, we should be able to protect them from not buying from those types of stores,” Santos added. – Rappler.com

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G. MetroCebu

Items Contents

Publication MetroCebu

Link http://metrocebu.com.ph/2017/08/fda-launches-electronic-logbook-app/

Publication Date August 28, 2017

Headline

FDA launches electronic logbook app

Author Not identified

Content The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a mobile application that would eliminate paper logbooks and collect data and life-saving insights.

According to FDA director general Nela Charade Puno, the “Electronic Logbook” app, which was donated by the health tech startup mClinica, would help modernize the FDA and the country’s public health sector. “It can help the FDA ensure strict compliance with national regulations, perform recalls in real time, and reduce counterfeits and expired medicine, among other things,” Puno said in a news release issued Thursday. She noted that for the past 50 years, pharmacists have lost precious time with patients filling out handwritten paper logbooks to comply with local laws requiring them to document patient prescriptions.

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This bureaucratic process is also a challenge for the FDA as it monitors more than 10,000 active pharmacies across the country, Puno said.

The Electronic Logbook, which is accessible by mobile phone, will digitize prescriptions and use image recognition and artificial intelligence technology.

Puno said it can protect patients by monitoring their real-time use of prescription drugs, quickly recalling dangerous drugs, and reducing counterfeit and expired medicine.

It also lets pharmacists spend more time with patients by cutting paper bureaucracy and gives policymakers and researchers data that show disease outbreaks and medication trends as they occur in real time, she said.

To illustrate how it works, Puno said the Electronic Logbook can monitor a patient’s purchase and use of medicine. By finding out that one in every three patients buys fewer antibiotic pills than the number prescribed by the doctor, the app can assess if a patient is at risk of developing antimicrobial resistance.

This would help the government gain fresh insights on how to better target and treat public health problems, Puno said.

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H. Manila Times

Items Contents

Press Manila Times

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Link http://www.manilatimes.net/fda-e-logbook-app-expected-modernize-public-

health/347406/

Publication Date August 29, 2017

Headline FDA e-logbook app expected to modernize public health

Author Ma. Lisbet K. Esmael

Content The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched a mobile application that would help digitize the pharmacy sector and eliminate the paper bureaucracy in storing data and life-saving insights.

The FDA has partnered with health tech startup mClinica to come up with an innovative “Electronic Logbook” that is envisioned to transform the health sector.

“This new technology can modernize the FDA and our public health sector. It can help the FDA ensure strict compliance with national regulations, perform recalls in real-time, and reduce counterfeits and expired medicine, among other things,” FDA Director General Nela Charade Puno said in a recent statement.

With the e-logbook policymakers and researchers can access life-saving data that show disease outbreaks and medication trends as they occur in real time, Puno said.

“The Electronic Logbook lets pharmacists spend more time with patients by cutting paper bureaucracy,” the FDA said.

Pharmacists spend most of their time with patients to fill out paper logbooks by hand to comply with regulations on documenting filled-out prescriptions, it noted.

“The Philippines can have national-level health data that will help us gain life-saving insights on the state of public health and patient care,” Puno said.

The Philippines is the first in Asia to use an e-logbook as mobile app nationwide, the FDA said.

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