Dear Ritesh,
In yesterday's Business Line , I read about Ultracash Mobile app
In your interview, you say :
"
I am not going to the Big Bazaar, Life Style or Shoppers Stop
with this solution, but the small stores who will not be eligible for such PoS facilities
from the conventional big banks.
These are not very high-end guys; they work in limited
geographies. I am not going to burden them with too many overheads, PoS
machines, monthly rentals, etc. And I am giving them instant credit to their
current account. So they have everything to gain and nothing to lose
"
Congratulations
on , what is bound to become , a " Disruptive
Innovation " !
Given
your evangelical zeal to simplify the lives of small shop owners , I
urge you to develop / launch , a mobile app , as suggested in my following blog
with
regards,
(
click for my profile )
Marol
, Mumbai , India
( M
) +91 - 98,67,55,08,08
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Sunday, 11
October 2015
( let us call it , " Dispenser " )
On 14th Oct , 8 lakh pharmacy
stores will go on strike to persuade Government to prohibit sale of "
Prescription Drugs " by e-Pharmacies such as 1mg.com
/ Zigy.com , not to speak of e-Com sites like Amazon / SnapDeal /
Flipkart etc
Reason
advanced :
* Online sale puts
consumers at risk
Real reason
?
* Loss of jobs of 4 million
persons employed by 800,000 pharmacy stores
* Loss of business
worth Rs 80.000 Crores
Current
legal provision :
* Drugs and Cosmetics
Act,1940 does not prohibit online sale of medicines
Govt
response :
* Set up a Committee to
draft new provisions in Law to regulate online sale
My take :
* One day , everything
will be sold online from web sites 10,000 Km away !
* There is no way march
of EVERYTHING ONLINE can be stopped or slowed
My
Suggestions :
* Govt to upload a Mobile
App ( DISPENSER ? ) on Health Ministry web site
* All doctors must
download it , after proper registration / authentication
* App will get embedded
with full details of that doctor who uses it
* Doctors to enter
Patient Data in App / then enter prescribed Drug Details
* Doctor will SMS app
data entered , to concerned patient's mobile
* Patient will SMS
entered app data to mobile of Chemist of his choice
* Chemist will deliver
the medicine to the patient with Bill Details in App
* Every action /
transaction on App , will get automatically emailed to web
Servers of
# Health Ministry
# All India Medical Association
# All India Organization of Chemists and Druggists ( AIOCD )
# Drug Controller General of India
Advantages
:
* Jobs / business
of Chemists / Druggists saved
* Great
convenience for patients / no need to visit Drug Store
* No chance of
Chemist " misinterpreting " doctor's handwriting !
* Full History of
# Each Patient ( great benefit to Prescribing doctors )
# Each Drug ( great benefit to Pharma Companies )
# Each Chemist Shop ( great benefit to Govt / AIOCD / Tax Dept )
# Each Doctor ( great interest to All India Medical Association )
Of course , I have no answer
for those who will oppose my suggestion by saying :
" What if either the
Patient or the Doctor or the Chemist , does not have a Smart phone ?
"
My only
answer :
For the benefit of millions ,
let us harness the Online Delivery technology
That is the only way DIGITAL
INDIA can benefit the entire society
Solutions to all the problems
of the World are known
Only Unknown are those
dedicated persons determined to implement !
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hemen parekh
12 Oct 2015
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