International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 09 Issue: 07 | July 2022
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Development of a Comparison Based Medicine Purchasing System Jay Patil, Jairaj Vijay Bhiste, Jayashree Prasad Student ,Dept. Of. Computer Science, MIT School Of Engineering, Pune, India Student, Dept. Of. Computer Science, MIT School Of Engineering Pune, India Professor, Dept. Of. Computer Science, MIT School Of Engineering Pune, India ------------------------------------------------------------------------***------------------------------------------------------------------------According to a research by the Pharmaceutical Research Abstract—
and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)[21], one of the primary reasons prescription medicine costs are in the news may be due to the complexity and large number of actors in the drug supply chain.
A considerable portion of India's population relies on the government-run healthcare delivery system, which is either free, contributory, or heavily subsidized, to meet their healthcare needs.In the world of online and offline markets the prices of medicines vary from city to city and different e-commerce site to site. Hence to overcome this the proposed system compares prices of medicines from different websites and provides users the cheapest ones.
According to the research, the price of prescription pharmaceuticals is heavily influenced by discussions among wholesalers, pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers, and insurers. The authors highlighted that while discounts on medicines have risen in recent years, out-of-pocket expenses have not.
Keywords—Healthcare, Comparison, Prices, Indian medicines, Pharmacy, General medicine, Wholesale, Ecommerce, Dawai.
The proposed systems work consists of two major pillars:
1. INTRODUCTION Since Past decade we can see a rapid growth in Medical sector. Dependency of the world on Information and online shopping has increased. A huge number of medicine retailers and wholesalers have started moving their business to online mode. The rise of chain pharmacies in India and other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is posing a threat to the status quo in pharmacy retail sectors that have traditionally been controlled by independent pharmacies. This begs the question of whether such organizations will have a good impact on drug affordability and availability. Due the no fixed pricing and other factors such as cost of logistics, region, mode (online, offline),dealer margin affect the cost of medicines to vary in different places. A person purchasing medicines does not go and check prices of medicines on each site individually and the time of emergency but rather order it from the first site that strikes his/her search page whereas there are other websites providing the same medicine at a different price point. To overcome this situation the proposed system fetches the prices of the medicine searched by the consumer from different websites compares them and suggests the consumer the site giving the cheapest one.
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The first phase takes input from the user and fetches the related medicine from at least five different websites and processes it for the end user. Where as in the other hand once the relative information is fetched from different websites the backend sorts the data into ascending order on the basis of different factors such as price, availability, etc. Pricing is given the most importance as this is the main agenda the proposed system is built for. To further gather insight and knowledge on other solutions that include price comparison and data extraction we analyzed data from other research papers. Literature Survey
The supply chain of pharmaceutical companies has a significant impact on medicine prices. Higher out-ofpocket costs are incurred by consumers, and health insurers must deal with rising prescription costs.
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