"E-Health": An E-commerce to Manage the Supply Chain of a Medicine
Claudio Cilli, Giulio Magnanini, Fabrizio Venettoni, Marco Silipigni, Lorenzo Manduca, Cirillo Atalla, Michael Cozzolino, Mukteshwar Mishra
Proceedings of the 27th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2023, pp. 157-163 (2023); https://doi.org/10.54808/WMSCI2023.01.157
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The 27th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2023
Virtual Conference September 12 - 15, 2023 Proceedings of WMSCI 2023 ISSN: 2771-0947 (Print) ISBN (Volume): 978-1-950492-73-2 (Print) |
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Abstract
The online buying and selling of medicines are regulated by different law articles based on the country where the medicines are sold. The main issue with this law is that not all types of medicines are authorized to be sold and that not all standard e-commerce websites are able to sell them unless they have a special authorization released by the competent regional authority. These limitations have a huge impact on the medicines themselves, overall, in this current period where the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the whole world. In fact, with the possibility of multiple lockdowns, it became very difficult to buy medicines, but also to buy all the medical devices such as protective masks to defend against it. In this work we attempt to create an e-commerce based on medical products, to try to solve these limitations imposed first by the state, and subsequently, by the pandemic. A main standard system connecting customers, pharmacists, pharmaceutical companies and the National Health system is built in order to allow the buying and selling of medicines between them, and a decentralized blockchain protocol is used in order to allow customers to buy those medicines that needs a prescription online, and that normally wouldn’t have been able to be sold in the world.
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