East Japan Medicom Establishes Flat-Rate Plan for AI Pharmacy Assistant "MC-Drive for Pharmacy"

East Japan Medicom Co., Ltd. will introduce a "Flat-Rate Plan" for its AI pharmacy assistant "MC-Drive for Pharmacy," allowing unlimited use each month for a fixed fee. The service will offer two plans starting from ¥20,000 per month (excluding tax) to support the reduction of operational burdens.

Background

The dispensing remuneration revision for fiscal year 2026, based on the "Pharmacy Vision for Patients," indicates a direction to strengthen the pharmacist's role and fulfill regional responsibilities. Furthermore, with the promotion of healthcare DX, the importance of "confirmation," "recording," and "information sharing" in pharmacies has increased.

East Japan Medicom Co., Ltd. (hereinafter: the Company) has provided the AI assistant "MC-Drive Series," which safely records conversations during medication guidance and supports the creation of SOAP notes drafts. To enhance ease of adoption, a flat-rate plan is now being introduced.

New Plan

The "MC-Drive for Pharmacy Flat-Rate Plan" is a pricing plan that allows unlimited monthly use of each function of the AI pharmacy assistant for a fixed fee. Two types of plans are available to suit customer usage scenarios.

Plan Details

Light Plan: SOAP transcription assistant / Medication guidance theme recommendation / Automatic report generation can be used without usage limits.

Standard Plan: All functions of the AI assistant can be used without usage limits.

Pricing Conditions (excluding tax)

Light: ¥20,000 per month

Standard: ¥35,000 per month

Up to 2 terminals (additional terminals from the 3rd unit will incur a fee of ¥5,000 per terminal per month).

Service Overview

The AI pharmacy assistant "MC-Drive for Pharmacy" (hereinafter, MC-Drive) is a service for dispensing pharmacies that records and summarizes conversations during medication guidance and automatically creates draft SOAP notes.

Furthermore, in conjunction with the electronic pharmacy record system "DrugstarPrime3," it supports multiple tasks with a single service, including automatic report generation, reading and automatic registration of inspection forms, answering questions based on drug package inserts, and supporting electronic pharmacy record operations using natural language (voice and text).

Features

▼ Operational Support

Recommendation of guidance themes based on prescription details, patient background, and medication guidance history.

Recording and summarizing medication guidance conversations → Automatic creation of SOAP pharmacy records.

Automatic document creation according to specified format items by determining necessary information from pharmacy records.

Answering patient questions and pharmacist inquiries by interpreting the package inserts of all prescribed drugs.

Analyzing inspection form images and converting them into data. Registering inspection values in DrugstarPrime3.

Operating DrugstarPrime3 by speaking to the system (also operable via text input).

▼ AI Optimization

AI models are selected for each purpose, such as conversation summarization, information extraction, and natural language (voice/text) operation. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is utilized to ensure up-to-dateness and accuracy using reference information.

SOAP transcription, medication guidance, proposal, and automatic report generation.

Safety

▼ Data Management

Recorded data is automatically deleted after 60 days.

Medical and personal information is managed within domestic environments.

Implementation Effects

According to the Company's verification, both the efficiency and quality of recording operations have been confirmed, with a 9% reduction in post-dispensing work time (average: 795 seconds → 725 seconds/patient) and an improvement in the richness of SOAP structure (S +16%, A +78%, P +144%) (Company survey).

MC-Drive Implementation Effect 1: Reduction in post-dispensing work time MC-Drive Implementation Effect 2: Improvement in SOAP description volume.

Future Plans

Plans include sequentially expanding natural language operation templates in preparation for electronic prescription integration, enhancing recommendation functions for managing remaining medication and patient follow-ups, and strengthening recording support functions for home care support and interprofessional collaboration (contents under development/consideration are subject to change).

Inquiries

East Japan Medicom Co., Ltd. System Development Department

Phone: 048-668-1333 (Main) / FAX: 048-668-2330

Email: [email protected]

Product URL: https://www.drugstar.jp/drive/ Company HP: https://www.e-medicom.co.jp/