
However, despite high expectations for realizing the benefits of IT investments in pharmaceutical supply chain, issues surrounding its evaluation and adoption remain poorly understood and relatively under-researched. Effective use of IT can also help these healthcare organizations to reduce costs in supplying and distributing medicines and other medical-related products to the general public. For example, it can assist in setting up an infrastructure which supports complex, multiparty trading and transactions among pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers, hospitals, pharmacies, medical supply importers and exporters, and other players in the healthcare system. Information technology (IT) holds potential for transforming business practices in important ways.
