Foreign pharmacy automation equipment in the country are characterized by incompatibility. Currently imported automation equipment mainly Germany, the Netherlands, Japan and other three or four manufacturers, and are sold through domestic agents.
Domestic production and sales of outpatient pharmacy automation equipment are mainly two manufacturers: Beijing Huakang and Suzhou Ailong. The products of domestic manufacturers are designed and developed for domestic hospitals and are more targeted.
Beijing Huakang Integrity Medical Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research and development of pharmacy automation systems, production, sales and provision of perfect after-sales service, invested and held by Donghua Group (stock code: 002065). Donghua Group is a leading enterprise in the field of computer software, hardware and automation in China, and is a key enterprise within the national planning layout. The Group has nearly 3,000 employees and has branches in North America, Hong Kong and Macao.
Beijing Huakang Company, at the early stage of its establishment, established the development strategy based on the automation of hospital pharmacy, facing different needs of users, taking independent research and development and production as the leading role, assisted by agency sales, and taking the development path of science, industry and trade.
In 2009, Beijing Huakang signed and successfully implemented the automation system projects of outpatient (emergency) main pharmacy of Beijing Maternity Hospital of Capital Medical University and Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital. The automation system of Huakang assumed an indispensable key role in the process of issuing medicines, and created a precedent for the application of overall automation in the main outpatient pharmacy of the comprehensive tertiary hospitals in China.