UK-based blockchain firm
MediConnect announced the addition of online pharmacy My Net Doctor to its platform for tracing prescription drugs. My Net Doctor will join another pharmacy UK Meds in a proof of concept. MediConnect is planning a pilot in 2020.
Drug dependence and addiction is a growing problem globally. The United States is currently facing an opioid crisis which claimed over 17,000 lives in 2016. The problem is patients obtain medicines online by using the same prescriptions multiple times. MediConnect is trying to prevent this overuse of medications, while also ensuring medicine provenance in the pharma supply chain.
“My Net Doctor has built a strong customer-base by placing its patients at the heart of everything it does, and the integration of MediConnect will add the most secure safeguards against the abuse of prescription medication,” said Dexter Blackstock, CEO of MediConnect.
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