Cancer Medicine Distribution Powered by the Blockchain
Healthcare looks to blockchain infrastructure to optimize the cancer medication supply chain.
Supply chains of the modern health systems are pretty complicated and inefficient. This is especially evident in the department of medicine supply where a lot of patients are not suited to their needs accordingly. On the other hand, some patients have the medications that they do not use. This is such a misfortune as there are many people that would make a good use of that medicine. Simply, current medicine supply chain cannot cope with these issues and ideas about changing it have been proposed. One of those ideas deals with the implementation of blockchain technology in the supply chain.
New Blockchain Infrastructure
The city of Memphis could be the host of a new blockchain infrastructure that should help cancer patients to easier get their medicine. This project is born out of the cooperation between FedEx Institute of Technology and Good Shepherd Pharmacy, Commercial Appeal reports.
Secure way of the blockchain information distribution will play a major role in the new supply chain. That characteristic of blockchain will enable that unused medication is retrieved and made available to the disadvantaged or people that do not have economic capacities to fund the needed medications. Good Shepherd...
Token Review: Curaizon's Healthcare Ecosystem Improves Drug Adherence
Curaizon is developing technologies to address the largest area of waste in the global healthcare system.
They say that necessity is the mother of all inventions. This is especially evident when you look at what Curaizon are doing in the world of drug adherence. Curaizon has been around since 2015 and they have been developing drug-adherence technologies to combat what has become the largest area of waste in healthcare today. Patients not taking their drugs cost the worlds health services more than $700 Billion in avoidable waste every year. With more than half of all adults now on some kind of long-term medication, it is imperative that they take their medicines as prescribed. The problem is that only half of us take our medications in this way, which leads to...
