title: Extended possibilities of pharmaceuticals delivery to patients using dematerialized prescriptions.
abstract: This paper considers the requirement for e-commerce enabled delivery of pharmaceutical prescriptions. First, currently available solutions are critically reviewed and an ideal solution is specified and then the concept of the proposed solution--Dematerialized Prescription (DP), is outlined. Next, the information flows required to enable such a service are considered. The paper then considers a number of possible services which could be made available with DP to deliver medicals to patients. Finally, a proposed solution, which enables physician to fill dematerialized prescriptions online using inexpensive mobile Internet devices is presented in detail, the advantages of such a model are summarized and future research directions are suggested.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Management, Poznań University of Technology, ul. Piotrowo 3a, 60-965 Poznań, Poland. andrzej.urbanski@cs.put.poznan.pl
authors.forename: Andrzej P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Urbański
mesh_terms: D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D010593:Pharmaceutical Services; D019114:Remote Consultation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations