Piloting a smartphone-based application for tracking and supply chain management of medicines in Africa

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In a bid to address the challenge of data collection, monitoring and materials delivery in the health sector, a pilot study was undertaken to evaluate the tracking ability, reliability and applicability of EASE App, a novel Smart Phone based Application. The App is designed to provide real-time tracking and tracing of commodities as well as curation of data in a cloud based database with restricted access which can be linked with other databases. In this study, QR code labelled product, NIPRIMAL, was tracked within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria, using the smartphone based EASE App.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zum-wdjf
Metadata Access https://lifesciences.datastations.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.17026/dans-zum-wdjf
Provenance
Creator H. O. Egharevba
Publisher DANS Data Station Life Sciences
Contributor Henry Egharevba; Plos One
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC0 1.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess true
Contact Henry Egharevba (National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development)
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Version 2.0
Discipline Life Sciences; Medicine