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ArticleNPJ digital medicine2026

Real-time digital prescriptions unlock influenza dynamics: evidence from 21 million transactions.

Rui Shen, Xueying Xu, Lei Yang, Zixing Wang, Rongrong Yang, Xiao Liu, Zilu Xu, Hao Jiang, Na Sun, Dayan Wang and 2 more

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Article in NPJ digital medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Rui Shen *School of Population Medicine and Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Xueying Xu *School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
Lei Yang *National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
Zixing Wang *Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China.
Rongrong YangGanzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Ganzhou, China.
Xiao LiuSchool of Population Medicine and Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Zilu XuSchool of Population Medicine and Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Hao JiangSchool of Population Medicine and Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Na SunSchool of Population Medicine and Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
Dayan WangNational Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China. wangdayan@ivdc.chinacdc.cn.
Hongbo LiuSchool of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, China. hbliu@cmu.edu.cn.
Luzhao FengSchool of Population Medicine and Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. fengluzhao@cams.cn.

Funding

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences 2021-I2M-1-044Science & Technology Fundamental Resources Investigation Program 2023FY100600the National Key R&D Program of China 2024YFC2311500
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traditional influenza surveillance suffers from 1-2 week reporting delays that compromise outbreak response. We analyzed 21.08 million digital prescription transactions from China's largest on-demand medication delivery platform across 31 provinces (2022-2024) and demonstrated that prescription data provide causally validated epidemic proxies. Digital prescriptions exhibited 2-week predictive lead time (convergent cross-mapping skills Δρ

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