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Healthcare Republic - "The home of primary care"
2007 Haymarket Business Media

HealthcareRepublic.com is the UK's leading website for primary care teams.

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The site is home to dedicated sections for GPs, nurses, pharmacists and practice staff, who log on to catch up with news clinical guidance, records, webcasts and articles for continuing education Healthcare Republic also carries the archive from Haymarket Medical's print titles - GP newspaper and Independent Nurse magazine - and an online version of MIMS, the prescribing reference What’s more, the site includes a jobs board, Healthcare Republic Jobs, a classified advertising section and it also allows companies to post their own news http://www.healthcarerepublic.com

Starpharms
2002

B2B trading exchange, that allows independent Pharmacists to purchase stock online, direct from the manufacturers.

Simple secure logon screen Dual menu for different manufacturers OTC and S/L products Advertising space for a scaled down version of print ads News ticker for the latest news, offers and service messages Suitable for basic operating systems and browsers Intuitive interface for users from a non technical background

Starpharms.com, allows independent community pharmacies to access a range of manufacturers' special offers on non-prescription medicines. It enables manufacturers to include information, prices and special offers on their products. Once registered with Starpharms.com, community pharmacists could look through the offers and place orders directly. These orders would be transferred to wholesalers for delivery in the normal way.

The website allows manufacturers to update their information at any time. Pharmacists would be able to keep records of the orders they had placed, make regular orders using previously saved data and track orders through the system. Pharmacists would be able to get access to the site through IMS Health's Intrapharm service or through a dedicated internet device.

This solution was developed to connect chemists directly to suppliers via the web, free of charge. Using Starpharms extensive knowledge of the pharmaceutical market, and Biomni's expertise in designing and implementing e-procurement solutions, a comprehensive list of deliverables was drawn up. Starpharms had identified that the system should be easy to use, quick to implement and flexible for the local community pharmacists to use. A vital consideration for the solution was that it must be geared to the specific requirements of the end user pharmacists.