DocumentCode
3501468
Title
Research on Medicine E-Business Platform Model
Author
Zhang Qing-hua
Author_Institution
Sch. of Inf. Manage. & Eng., Shanghai Univ. of Finance & Econ., Shanghai
fYear
2007
fDate
21-25 Sept. 2007
Firstpage
3561
Lastpage
3564
Abstract
With the economic and technical development, e-business has been taking up an important position in different fields, not to say the medicine distribution industry. E-business model has brought along a new breaking point for the innovation of medicine distribution industry, namely, through the analysis of this industry, seven requirements for its innovation can be obtained. Under the guidance of these requirements and also the Value-chain and Value-net theories, the paper builds up three medicine e-business platform models, after carefully examining the unique characteristics of China´s medicine distribution industry. These three models will not only be conducive to winning more advantages and profits for companies but also sets an example for the future development of medicine distribution industry.
Keywords
electronic commerce; medicine; pharmaceutical industry; China; medicine distribution industry; medicine e-business platform model; Communication industry; Companies; Costs; Finance; Health information management; Industrial economics; Large scale integration; Product design; Surveillance; Technological innovation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2007. WiCom 2007. International Conference on
Conference_Location
Shanghai
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1311-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WICOM.2007.881
Filename
4340656
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