Rxeed
Rxeed – Laravel, PHP, MySQL, API Integration with Drugbank, JQuery, JavaScript
Client Profile
Rxeed offers a one-stop shop that connects consumers, independent pharmacies and drug wholesalers in a dynamic electronic marketplace for prescriptions. They are building a pharmacy community that is inclusive, effective and revolutionary. The marketplace facilitates business to business and business to consumer sales.
Client Industry
Healthcare
Business Challenges
The founding team of Rxeed came to Plego with their conceptualization of a brand new marketplace for pharmaceuticals. They wanted a marketplace that minimized the inefficiencies that came with purchasing prescription drugs and make it a win win win scenario for consumers, pharmacies and wholesalers.
Solution
Plego designed and developed a brand new web application via the Laravel PHP Framework. This web application was developed for three specific types of users:
- Consumers
- Independent Pharmacies
- Wholesalers
Below is a summary of each component of this web application.
Consumers:
- The Rxeed Web Application lets you choose how much you pay for prescription drugs by letting multiple pharmacies bid their lowest price for your medication and required services.
- It lets you get transparent competition from both retail and mail order pharmacies, at the same time. Competition lowers prices and improves services and quality; it’s good for both retail and mail order pharmacy.
- It has a locate feature that locates who stocks the medication you need.
- Rxeed offers CMR- Comprehensive Medication Review, A thorough consultation regarding all patient medications that benefits drug adherence and compliance, coverage of drug interactions or possible drug duplication to name a few areas of concern.
- The site features “Contact a Compounding Pharmacy”. Hard to make and hard to find compounded medications are no longer a cause of frustration for the customer. Simply input the compound information and Rxeed.com will search for a compounding pharmacy to fill their compound.
Request a bid
User’s can request a bid for any medication in their database by searching for that medication and inputting the desired quantity. The user will then receive the bids in a given period of time. The user then must pay a fee to view the bid for their medication.
Locate medication
User’s can locate hard to find medication through this feature. If a pharmacy in the user’s defined area has it in stock, the user can then communicate with the pharmacy for a fee.
Comprehensive Medication Review
The comprehensive medication review (CMR) offers much more than the traditional brown-bag review. Pharmacists go beyond review of medication purposes and side effects, and creation of a personal medication list (PML) for the patient. CMRs also assess issues such as adherence, appropriateness of therapy, and opportunities for cost savings, and along with a medication list provide a medication action plan (MAP), detailing the steps to optimize medication therapy.
Independent Pharmacies:
- Search Pharmacies inventories of overstock items.
- Search Wholesalers’ inventories.
- Inquire within fellow independent pharmacy regarding drug availability due to shortage or backorder.
Consumer Requests
This Feature allows licensed local independent pharmacies to view an open auction. Pharmacy has only one chance to place a bid of their best price for the auction.
Locate medication
Response to consumer location requests.
Request Bid
This free feature allows independent pharmacies to have licensed wholesalers from their local state bid on selected medication.
Search Wholesaler
Search licensed local wholesaler’s inventory in any state. Enter NDC or medication name.
Search Pharmacy
This feature allows independent pharmacies to buy and sell small quantities of non-controlled, non-expired overstocked prescription drugs and drugs in short supply, to satisfy a specific patient need or declared public health emergency. A service fee of 3% with a maximum of $200 per transaction is charged to the seller’s credit card.
Pharmacy Inquiry
A feature Rxeed offers to all independent pharmacy owners. Is the drug(s) they need on back order or part of a shortage? Pharmacies can send their requests to other licensed independent pharmacies nationwide to see who is able to supply the drug(s) they need.
Drug Wholesalers:
- Lowest commission fee of 2.5% on any seller platform.
- Wholesalers have the ability to upload their daily specials to the entire marketplace on Rxeed.
Technologies Used
Laravel, PHP, MySQL, API Integration with Drugbank, JQuery, JavaScript
Services Provided