Abstract

WAY TO CORRECT E PHARMACY A REVIEW

Sachin S. Mali*, Shrikant S. Magdum and Supriya S. Patil

ABSTRACT

E-Pharmacy operates over the internet and sends the orders to customers through mail or shipping companies. Online sale of the prescription based medicines from the E-Pharmacy's website are defined under the Information Technology Act, 2000.Overview technology says Web-based or mobile-based application for consumers to upload the scanned copy of their prescriptions and place requests for Rx based medicines. Every order is verified and checked by a team of registered pharmacists. The registered pharmacists to forward the validated prescriptions to the pharmacy store from where the medicines are dispensed. E-pharmacy has lots of disadvantages like drug abuse, lack of interaction with pharmacist, effect on offline seller, as per our point of view it require some corrections. Based on our studies E-Pharmacy is harmful to the community by many ways like self medication, toxicity, addiction etc. Actually we are not against E-Pharmacy we are against harmful effect of E-Pharmacy to the community.

Keywords: E-pharmacy, Online pharmacy, traditional pharmacy, treading business.