E-Commerce in Healthcare

Posted by riya on June 13th, 2018

Nowadays, E-commerce appears ready to assist the healthcare industry. E-commerce refers to the use of electronic information technologies to conduct business transactions among buyers, sellers, trading partners etc. There are two types of e-commerce infrastructures which include web-based and EDI electronic data interchange. Here the web-based e-commerce generally involves the use of a browser that interacts with a Web server that does the transaction processing, commonly used for B2C-type transactions. EDI transactions have typically been used for B2B transactions. They are expected to decline, making strides toward Web-based transactions. EDI combines business and electronic infrastructures, which allows traditional business transactions to be conducted electronically, ignoring the physical or geographic boundaries separating them. E-commerce needs to provide measurable benefits, that is, there should be a perceived value in it for all stakeholders. For more