clothes, groceries, cabs =/= drugs....you have laws to deal with.
What space, I don't understand what you offer that you cannot get through other services already. You keep hounding the e-scipt thing, what does that change?
All you are talking about is a delivery service...cool story, but that has been around for awhile. It has been tried by numerous companies and doesn't really work.
How do you plan on transporting C-2s? other controls? What about your liability? How do you plan on counseling?
You do realize that you can manage your prescriptions with apps at most big retail pharmacies, right? and even they with their multi billion dollars can't get those things to work perfectly.
Glad you can join the conversation. I'll break it down for you.
You asked "what space?". It doesn't exist yet but we plan to be the first in the on-demand economy. The on-demand economy is defined as the economic activity created by technology companies that fulfill consumer demand via the immediate provisioning of goods and services. You can learn more on techcrunch, business insider, wall street journal etc. Example of companies that are part of this economy are uber, lyft, washio, amazonfresh, freshdirect, eaze(delivers medical marijuana), handy, instacart, cleanly, eat24, zipments and lots more. Venture capital funding in companies providing on-demand products and services have totaled over $1.5 billion since 2010.
Now consider this... the only difference between uber and the traditional cab company is that you can place your credit card on file and request a cab thru the app. This almost trivial difference has allowed them to grow to a $30 billion company in just 4 years. Consumers demand convenience.
It's not just about the money. An on-demand pharmacy stands to do lots of good. 20% of prescriptions never get picked up from the pharmacy. 4 out of 5 prescriptions are not refilled by patients as prescribed by their doctor. Hassle and procrastination are big factors that lead to this kind of non-adherence. Thru our model, we'll eliminate that average 45 minute wait time that's associated with filling a script in person and make it as easy as possible for patients to get the medications they need. That's a win for patients, savings for the healthcare industry and if we can turn a little profit, that's good too.
the 'escript thing' changes a lot. Without electronic prescriptions, on-demand delivery of medications will be almost impossible. State law across the US require that a pharmacy obtain an original hard copy rx before filling a prescription. So a patient scanning a copy of their rx thru the app wouldn't be acceptable.
I believe that in NYS, pharmacy employees are allowed to deliver cII. We will check more on this and if not, we'll exclude controls just like mail order pharmacies exclude controls. Obviously we will carry liability insurance which is mandated by state and federal law. Counseling will be done thru the phone or thru secure email.
Yes, with big chains, you can currently manage your existing scripts with apps but not request free delivery. Additionally, no chain currently allows you the ability to fill a new script thru an app.
