Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures. Third International Conference, FABULOUS 2017, Bucharest, Romania, October 12-14, 2017, Proceedings

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Smart Pharma: Towards Efficient Healthcare Ecosystem

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-92213-3_12,
        author={Sadia Anwar and Bhawani Chowdhry and Ramjee Prasad},
        title={Smart Pharma: Towards Efficient Healthcare Ecosystem},
        proceedings={Future Access Enablers for Ubiquitous and Intelligent Infrastructures. Third International Conference, FABULOUS 2017, Bucharest, Romania, October 12-14, 2017, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={FABULOUS},
        year={2018},
        month={7},
        keywords={Smart pharma Patient empowerment Digital metamorphosis Beyond-the-pill concept Telemedicine},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-92213-3_12}
    }
    
  • Sadia Anwar
    Bhawani Chowdhry
    Ramjee Prasad
    Year: 2018
    Smart Pharma: Towards Efficient Healthcare Ecosystem
    FABULOUS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92213-3_12
Sadia Anwar,*, Bhawani Chowdhry1,*, Ramjee Prasad,*
  • 1: Mehran University of Engineering and Technology
*Contact email: sadia@btech.au.dk, c.bhawani@ieee.org, ramjee@btech.au.dk

Abstract

New innovative health related technologies will help people to empower them by making more aware of their health-related problems, early prevention and precaution of diseases. The technologies will be providing a platform for various disciplines of science to collaborate and solve problems people are facing. This paper proposes a smart pharma approach to empower the physician-patient relationship by utilizing new technological tools. Furthermore, a generic framework for efficient healthcare ecosystem is proposed to realize the smart pharma approach.