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medical institutions and pharmacies to use and can improve the effectiveness of medical services.
In addition, in order to enhance the safe use of non-prescription drugs, we comprehensively
promoted the simple wording on the outside of the package; and also printed the QR codes on
the boxes too.

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I. Reinforced the digitalization management of Taiwan's drug administration
TFDA has conducted training courses to guide local industry to get familiar with relevant
systems. In 2019, we conducted 4 workshops for industry with the satisfaction of 80%
through 416 feedback surveys. A total of 1,557 applications using the online submission for
drug registration had been completed. TFDA will continue to promote the upgrade of i online
submission and review platform (ExPress), and strengthening the digitalization of Taiwan's drug
management with the enhancement and expansion of the functions for online submission system,
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II. Reinforced the drug safety surveillance and analysis
In 2019, there were 15,747 adverse drug reaction reports, 88 safety information about the
domestic and foreign drugs, 34 drug safety assessments, 21 drug risk communication forms were

issued and 4 drug safety newsletters quarterly were issued for reminding the medical staff and
the public, to ensure the safety of the public’s medication.
III. Established a database of electronic labeling and promote easy-to-read

and easy-to-understand for package inserts of non-prescription drugs
Users could search package inserts of non-prescription drugs via simple and easily
understood structured information. And we continue to communicate with pharmacies,
pharmaceutical companies and medical information exchange groups to establish a user-
friendly electronic labeling management system. In addition, the outside of the non-prescription
medicines boxes has been inserted the easy-to-read and easy-to-understand wordings for the
public. Based on the statistical data, the completion rate of valid non-prescription medicine

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