To compile Consumer Price Index ( CPI ), USA Bureau of
Labor Statistics employs hundreds of staff to call, fax, and visit stores and
offices in 90 cities across the nation and report back about 80,000 prices on everything from tomatoes to
taxi fares
But by the time the numbers come out, they're already a
few weeks old and useless
In response , two economists at the MIT, Alberto Cavallo
and Robert Rigobon , came up with a big-data alternative
Using software to crawl the Web, they collected half a
million prices of products sold in the U.S. every single day
The project was able to detect a deflationary swing in
prices immediately after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in September 2008
Enter commercial venture : Price-Stats :
It compiles millions of products sold by hundreds of
retailers in more than 70 countries everyday..... indicating trends in
inflation
{Source : Big Data : authors / Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
/ Kenneth Cukier }
In India , we too , keep compiling CPI in the same old
way
Anybody's guess when our Central Government Authority
responsible for compiling CPI , will adopt BIG DATA ANALYTICS , to give us up-to-the-day
figures
Now imagine if Government were to launch Mobile App
3D
- Digital Delivery of Drugs ( outline below ) ,
and make its use
MANDATORY by every ,
* Citizen................
( Patient )
* Doctor................
( Prescriber )
* Pharma Store.......(
Vendor )
Then imagine applying BIG DATA ANALYTICS to every
single purchase of every strip / bottle / vial
of medicine ( totaling to may be a 100 million , every day )
This , fairly straight-forward use of an unusually
simple Mobile App , is capable of delivering , unprecedented level of "
Customized Healthcare " to millions of our citizens
I hope Dr Harsh Vardhan takes note !
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www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
01 May 2016
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3 D - Digital Delivery of Drugs ?
( let us call it , " Dispenser " )
On 14th Oct , 8 lakh pharmacy stores will go on strike to
persuade Government to prohibit sale of " Prescription Drugs " by
e-Pharmacies such as 1mg.com / Zigy.com , not to speak of e-Com sites
like Amazon / SnapDeal / Flipkart etc
Reason advanced :
* Online sale puts consumers at risk
Real reason ?
* Loss of jobs of 4 million persons employed by 800,000
pharmacy stores
* Loss of business worth Rs 80.000 Crores
Current legal provision :
* Drugs and Cosmetics Act,1940 does not prohibit online
sale of medicines
Govt response :
* Set up a Committee to draft new provisions in Law to
regulate online sale
My take :
* One day , everything will be sold online from web sites
10,000 Km away !
* There is no way march of EVERYTHING ONLINE can be
stopped or slowed
My Suggestions :
* Govt to upload a Mobile App ( DISPENSER ? ) on Health
Ministry web site
* All doctors must download it , after proper registration
/ authentication
* App will get embedded with full details of that doctor
who uses it
* Doctors to enter Patient Data in App / then enter
prescribed Drug Details
* Doctor will SMS app data entered , to concerned
patient's mobile
* Patient will SMS entered app data to mobile of Chemist
of his choice
* Chemist will deliver the medicine to the patient with
Bill Details in App
* Every action / transaction on App , will get
automatically emailed to web
Servers of
# Health Ministry
# All India Medical
Association
# All India
Organization of Chemists and Druggists ( AIOCD )
# Drug
Controller General of India
Advantages :
* Jobs / business of Chemists / Druggists saved
* Great convenience for patients / no need to visit
Drug Store
* No chance of Chemist " misinterpreting "
doctor's handwriting !
* Full History of
# Each Patient ( great benefit to
Prescribing doctors )
# Each Drug (
great benefit to Pharma Companies )
# Each Chemist Shop ( great
benefit to Govt / AIOCD / Tax Dept )
# Each Doctor ( great
interest to All India Medical Association )
Of course , I have no answer for those who will oppose my
suggestion by saying :
" What if either the Patient or the Doctor or the Chemist ,
does not have a Smart phone ? "
My only answer :
For the benefit of millions , let us harness the Online Delivery technology
That is the only way DIGITAL INDIA can
benefit the entire society
Solutions to all the problems of the World are known
Only Unknown are those dedicated persons determined to
implement !
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hemen parekh
12 Oct 2015
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