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December 03-04, 2018 | Lisbon, Portugal

Public Health, Women's Health, Nursing and Hospital Management

Joint Event

Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education | ISSN : 2161-0711 | Volume 08

Pharmacy care delivery using SMS in developing countries

urrently in developing countries, distribution of pharmacy drugs in a controlled way can be

a challenging task due to lack of medical doctors and/or adequate technology especially in

rural areas. For the patients in rural areas, getting prescriptions or getting adequate drugs for their

illness can be difficult due to aforementioned reason, so expected patient outcome in the regions

remains low. Also the patients in rural areas may try substitute medicine for their illness due to the

unavailability of pharmacy drugs, so early detection of possible epidemic can be difficult as such

treatments do not leave any related data to collect. Even if prescriptions for the patients in rural area

are available, access to nearby city pharmacies is still difficult due to lack of adequate transportation.

In an attempt to resolve such issues, we propose an approach that utilizes information technology

available in rural areas of developing countries such as 2G/2.5G SMS, that is available in most of

developing countries, to deliver prescription/medication to the patients. Our SMS approach includes

various associated technologies such as mobile payments, method of delivery, tracing prescription

status, and storing SMS based prescription/medication related conversation for a patient to a cloud

based electronic health record system after conversion to HL7 clinical document architecture

(CDA) for future reference. In our approach, doctors can prescribe medication for their patients

using SMS technology to any of the pharmacies listed in the pharmacy database. The pharmacy who

received prescription(s) may fulfill the prescription and send a text message to the patient notifying

that medication is ready to be delivered. As soon as the patient chooses a delivery method, the

prescribed drugs are delivered to the patient. After the delivery, a text message is sent back to the

doctor notifying that the prescription is fulfilled.

Biography

Lawrence Aikins graduted from University of Maryland with

in Information System Manegement and

Masters in Cyber-Security at UMBC. He is currently doing his PHD in Information Technology at Towson

University. Certifications includes Ethical Hacking, Certified Security Analyst, Licensed Penetration Tester,

Security+, Microsoft System Administration. His current position as President of LKA Computer Consultants.

Co-Author

Yeong-tae Song

Towson University, USA

Lawrence Aikins et al, J Community Med Health Educ 2018, Volume:8

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711-C7-050

Lawrence Aikins

Towson University, USA