Future Of Online Pharmacy Business In African Countries

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Future of online pharmacy business in African
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• The internet has revolutionized and changed our
  lives, communication, and procurement practices
  and strategies. As the access to the internet
  increases, its utilization to look for health
  information is additionally growing. Estimates
  worldwide demonstrate that approximately 4.5 of
  all internet searches are connected to
  health-related inquiries or information.
• Population-based surveys found that 71 of
  internet users in Europe and 72 of the online
  population in the US, looked for health
  information at least once in the previous year.
  These tendencies are additionally extended by
  mobile device utilization. However, customers use
  the internet today not only for getting health
  information, yet also to self-diagnose and
  acquire different health services or products.

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• As per an early definition by Fung et al,
  an online pharmacy is an Internet-based legal or
  illegal vendor, which sells medicine and may work
  as an independent website, an online part of
  brick-and-mortar pharmacy representing a
  partnership among pharmacies. Briefly, an online
  pharmacy is a website offering to deliver,
  dispense or distribute medication on the internet
  directly to buyers. The developing market of
  online pharmacies is encouraged by the rapid
  expansion of the internet, the consistently
  expanding digital health, the shift towards
  self-diagnosing from the immediate doctor-patient
  relations, consumer experience in online
  purchases, the simplicity of mail-order trade,
  and distance selling.

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• While online medical consultations are set to be
  available in Germany by roughly 2020, the
  roll-out of pharmacy dispensing units (PDUs)
  remains the subject of heated debate. In South
  Africa, where 20 million individuals need to
  manage chronic illnesses and there is a huge lack
  of qualified pharmacists, digitalization of the
  health sector has already started In three
  densely populated districts of Johannesburg,
  patients can gather their medication from 16 PDUs
  situated in four shopping centers. Around 15,000
  people, 70 of whom are women, have effectively
  taken advantage of this service since spring
  2017.
• MACH4, a Germany-based supplier of robotic
  medical store automation solutions, and
  Right E-Pharmacy, a subsidiary of the South
  African NGO Right to Care, entered into
  participation with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für
  Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to make
  digital pharmacies a reality in South Africa. The
  project is upheld by develoPPP.de, a program set
  up by the German Federal Ministry for Economic
  Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

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• Registered patients can retrieve their medication
  right at the dispensing units, which are also
  equipped with a video link to call a pharmacist
  for advice on the dosage and side effects. That
  service is available in the countrys eleven
  official languages and on weekends. It takes
  roughly five minutes to dispense the medication,
  compared with several hours of waiting time at
  public health facilities. Patients have issued
  chip cards that encourage access to patient and
  medicine order information stored in a cloud
  system.
• The PDUs not just improve access to medication
  and expert advice, yet also the probability that
  patients take their medicine effectively and
  regularly Patients get an instant text message
  to remind them of their next pick-up appointment.
  The system additionally decreases the probability
  of getting to be infected with different diseases
  in overcrowded waiting rooms or being stigmatized
  as an HIV patient.

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• The PDUs are not at full capacity yet they could
  really serve twice or threefold the number of
  patients. What's more, that is something worth
  being thankful for as the number of people
  utilizing the high-tech pharmacies continues to
  expand each month.
• We found, internet usage and online purchase
  behavior, in general, will predict the attitude
  toward online medication purchase and increase in
  more online pharmacy customers.
• We at EMedStore provides international
  award-winning online pharma applications. If you
  are looking to expand your pharmacy business,
  then we can help you in creating an online
  medicine delivery app and website and help you in
  reaching out to the customers worldwide.

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