Shanghai will expand a pilot program that is currently in place in the city's 26 first- and second-tier hospitals, local health authorities said Thursday.
Under the program, the hospitals have installed software that tracks doctors' prescriptions in an effort to prevent commercial bribery. This kind of crime is usually based on the amount of certain drugs that doctors prescribe.
Doctors have turned over about 15 million yuan ($2.39 million) in such bribes to authorities over the past three years.
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