Title:
Global or local E-Pharmacies: Society chance or organisational evolution?
Abstract: Buying drugs through Internet is known as a Online
pharmacy. People can buy various kinds of drugs like Prescription or Over
The Counter (OTC). The Online pharmacies generally lure the customers by
offering them discount prices. It is not simply selling the drugs through
Internet. There are Pharmacists who will be working for the Online pharmacies
providing the valuable services to their customers and checking the prescription
letters thoroughly before selling the drugs to the customers. Apart from
selling drugs to the customers, the online pharmacies can also provide health
care information to the customers according to the HON Code (Health On Net)
ethics. As the generic drug sector in the Pharmaceutical industry is going
to be a boom in the European Union and so the online pharmacies are going
to pick up. By 2006, 75% of the ‘Innovative’ drugs are going to loose their
patents, this is the reason why generic drugs are going to kick very soon
in the market and so the online pharmacies are going to flood. Buying drugs
through Internet is a serious issue because it is related to one’s health
and hence, there are so many
issues related to the Internet drugs in this document in order to go for
the safe medicines over the Internet.
Authors: Bruno Salgues and Kalyan Bollampally