PharmaCloud was implemented under the universal National Health Insurance(NHI) program in July, 2013. PharmaCloud makes medication history of all the insuredpeople available to practitioners contracted with the NHI, and the initial impact wasfound to be effective in reducing medication duplications and in containing drugexpenses incurred to the NHI. Case reports from the clinical floor offered exampleshow the use of PharmaCloud had reduced medication duplications, headed offpotential drug-induced complications, and avoided fatal contraindications. Morerecent data suggested that the effect continued in reducing drug expenses, whilethe effect in reducing medication duplications had begun to level off. Beginning fromthe second half of this year, a penalty is imposed on the physicians who prescribeduplicated drugs without consulting PharmaCloud. Encouraged by the promisingbenefits, the NHI Administration initiated a new round of plans to upgrade the system, so that PharmaCloud will transform into a fully integrated health bank with moreinformation, more functions, and also include non-reimbursable prescribed drugs forwider applications.