INTRODUCTION
The Medical sphere is referred to as one of the oldest known civilization to man. While some believes this invention to date as far back as the 5th century when the Hippocratic Oath upon which the very basis of medical ethics was formed, there are others who subscribes to the Idea that the study and in practice of medicine dates back to 3000 B.C. As the science and practice of the diagnosis, proffering a solution and the prevention of any disease or ailment, this filed of study has being evolved over time to maintain and restore health as it comprises of a wide range of health care practices which are being constantly improved upon to whatever extent at which science and technology permits.
The State of the Medical Sphere Today.
As a result of a number of challenges such as an inadequate supply of seasoned practitioners and medical personnels, insurance policies, influx of ersatz drugs and an inability of patience to make a detailed assessment of these practitioners even before employing their services thus the medical industry finds its difficult to make do with the problem of performing a real-time and satisfactory service concurrently. These setbacks could be further highlighted below.
- Limited Supply of Professional and seasoned Medical Personnels and Tools
This often bears the fruit of a grave consequence as an under-skilled medical practitioner (Doctors and Pharmacists alike) could lead to a heightened number of mortality rate since they do not have the skill to properly diagnose and prescribe a suitable drug in most cases. This becomes even worse when not they are exposed to sub-standard medical equipments and tools.
- Influx of Fake Drugs
Just like the afore listed condition, any sub-standard product in the medical industry is always consequential since this services has to do with the health of individuals. There exist presently no known means to checkmate the supply chain of such counterfeit drugs and as such these drugs are feed into the market mostly through companies and pharmacies that are engaged in wholesale pharmaceutical products.
- Over-hiked Goods and Services
As mentioned above, there exist no regulatory body that checkmates the supply of medical and pharmaceutical products and services and as such these services are being rendered at an exorbitant price with patients having little to no say on this.
Freedom of Choice
As a result of the inability to gain access to a pool of doctors and medical centers with their respective resumes, patients are deprived of the freedom of choice to select a specific doctor based on his qualifications or a particular medical center on the basis of their expertise or just for the sole reason of personal preference. Hence this serves as a deterrent to patients who intend to receive the best service they can find on the market. In most cases these limitations are being brought about by the Insurance companies.Fraudulent Medical Practitioners
The Insurance Companies on the other hand are not to be left out as they are poised with their own share of challenges mostly in the form of corrupt medical centers, doctors and pharmacists who tend to falsify their records so as to make room for erroneous insurance cases so to extort money from any insurance company that insures them.
ATLANTICO: A Real-time Medical and Pharmaceutical Service Vendors
Atlantico Network is an all-round pharmaceutical and medical solution that brings right to your finger tips a 24/7 medical service ranging from diagnosing and prescribing the right quality and quantity of pharmaceuticals to patient, supply and distribution of authentic medical supplies amongst many other medical related services. It is a decentralized network of medical practitioners and various service vendors in the medical industry with the name "decentralized" being coined as a result of the blockchain technology upon which it is powered. The Atlantico network's primary aim is to create a work-flow in the medical field that would interconnect the major stakeholders that would encourage a patent and fair distribution of its services. The major Stakeholders in the Medical Chain includes
Patients: These are one of the most important participants as the practice would only be a name if there are no patients to treat hence the significance of providing a-list medical services to these patience cannot be over stated. Taking into consideration that the quality of the service should be fairly rendered at a price that befits and not overpriced.
Doctors: In the entire chain the doctors stands out to be the most important as an expert service is not easy to come by and as such every good doctor wants to proffer patients with highly qualified healthcare service, perform an accurate diagnose and prescribe the right medicine leaving the patient healthy and happy.
Medical centers: A highly qualified medical center is rated by the quantity of specialists it has on its payroll as well as the quality of equipment and facilities it has in store. As these equipment are being rated on the basis of being up-to-date. Therefore a well recognized medical center is one with a highly qualified medical staff and modern equipment.
Pharmacies: As the supply chain of the drugs being distributed directly to patients medical centers it is paramount that every pharmaceutical network ensures the distribution of high quality, authentic and in-demand products at a very reasonable price.
Pharmaceutical wholesalers: These are the middlemen involved in the drug supply chain and in most cases they determine the retail price of the drugs being supplied into the market. An essential consideration in the pharmaceutical business is the scale and quality of sales since a trusted supplier is one who distributes quality drugs at an affordable price.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers: Drug manufacturers conduct a series of tests, researches and explorations in order to come up with an efficacious product hence a counterfeit of such a drug getting into the market and competing for recognition with such a drug becomes an issue to these drug manufacturers ass all the work being done would be enjoyed by an uncultured set of people.
Insurance companies: The Insurance company play a notable role as they tend to insure these pharmacies and medical centers while also trying to safeguard themselves from fraudulent medical practitioners. Cross checking all insurance case before offering their service this often tend to be more of a tedious task for them as they would not want to be running at losses.
By developing an ecosystem that fuses together all the key participants, ATLANTICO NETWORK aims to drive away the aforementioned problem definition with brute-force by incorporating a such a system with avante garde technology as blockchain that comes in handy along with other top notch technology such as smart contract and cryptocurrency that further encourages an in-house tokenisation mechanism on the platform.
References.
For more information you can click on the links below:
https://www.atlantico-network.io/
https://www.atlantico-network.io/assets/doc/whitepaper-en.pdf
https://t.me/AtlantICO_network
https://twitter.com/AtlantICOnetwo1
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4720272.new#new
https://blog.nem.io/nanowallet-tutorial/
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