• DocumentCode
    3025333
  • Title

    The opportunities and challenges of Internet medicine transaction services providers

  • Author

    Bin Dun ; Lu, Ying ; Chen, Feng ; Zhou, Jian

  • Author_Institution
    Inf. Center, State Food & Med. Adm., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    26-28 July 2011
  • Firstpage
    874
  • Lastpage
    877
  • Abstract
    China´s pharmaceutical e-commerce is in the early stage of development. B2C and B2B although the formation of patterns such as e-commerce transactions, but with the continuous development of medical e-commerce, China will establish and apply large-scale third-party service platform for pharmaceutical e-commerce transactions to further promote the improvement and development of the pharmaceutical industry. Internet medicine transaction services providers have a tremendous opportunity for development in the national policy support, medical e-commerce booming and many other changes in consumer shopping habits, while also facing online information disclosure, system integration, security of online transactions and a series of challenges. Internet medicine transaction services providers need to properly deal with the situation, then they could get more achievements in the expansion of the wave of pharmaceutical e-commerce.
  • Keywords
    Internet; consumer behaviour; electronic commerce; medicine; pharmaceutical industry; B2B; B2C; China; Internet medicine transaction services providers; consumer shopping habits; large-scale third-party service platform; medical e-commerce; national policy support; online information disclosure; online transaction security; pharmaceutical e-commerce transactions; pharmaceutical industry; system integration; Biomedical imaging; Internet; Law; Marketing and sales; Pharmaceuticals; Procurement; Internet medicine transaction services provider; challenge; opportunity; pharmaceutical e-commerce;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Multimedia Technology (ICMT), 2011 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hangzhou
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-61284-771-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMT.2011.6001829
  • Filename
    6001829