Reverse Supply Chain (Medicine Tracking)

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Evaluating a FI-STAR (Future Internet - Social Technological Alignment Research) Reverse Supply Chain in pharmacies for Patient Care.

• IRAS ID

  157184

• Contact name

  Rajeev Dhand

• Contact email

  raj@medichemonline.com

• Sponsor organisation

  European Commission

• Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier

  NA, NA

• Research summary

  The project is part of developing and evaluating FI-STAR (Future Internet - Social Technological Alignment)(www.fi-star.eu) technology that supports drug packaging, procurement, location tracking, dispensing, and home delivery and provides product information to the patient unlike current manual work with drugs that are identified by the producers and product type, but not uniquely identified packages our project will assure drug authenticity, helps pharmacists to avoid dispensing errors, helps patients to correctly use the drugs, helps dispensers to reduce patient consultancy and drug handling efforts.

• REC name

  South Central - Oxford C Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  14/SC/1125

• Date of REC Opinion

  9 Jul 2014

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion