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Healthcare Collaterals- Mobiles based Healthcare

Pharma Companies under Focus How can Mobiles add value to the B2B order processing and Process Management? Here you will have to go by the Healthcare Value chain. Mobility value add in Order processing i.e. B2B will be helpful only if: It eases out product procurement and delivery It helps stumbling blocks to improved value chain operations For this one need to understand the strategies in three product areas i.e. pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and medical-surgical products and other such deliverables.Let's take the pharmacy market first! There is already a scope for healthcare products/Devices and Pharma products as far as process management in the value chain are concerned. Introduction of M-commerce in health care value chain is also worth pondering over. For eg. Mobiles can be useful in effectively managing a small scale industry supply chain. Similarly, managing prescription order workflow in a pharmacy network can be done using mobile phones. A wo...

Mobile based Healthcare model

Mobile based Model- The Process and the Differentiation Value Chain Healthcare Social Linkups In September 2008, Informa Telecoms & Media conducted the annual Mobile Content & Services Industry Survey. Of the 307 telecom industry professionals who participated in the survey, 71% believed that social networking & community services will have a significant impact on driving P2P uptake of mobile content. Healthcare services can therefore be benefited using social networking to doctor to doctor, doctor to patient and patient to patient social networking. Will this work? Mobile operators and service providers are increasingly integrating social networking and community features in their value added services. For example, if we look at some of the popular mobile music services such as MusicStation, Cyloop Mobile, Shazam, Bebo Mobile and Vodafone Music Reporter; they all include community features. Prima-facie looks like it will work for Healthcare based Inform...