Little reminder
& I noticed the issue of counterfeit prescription medications like Xanax or Fentanyl is a growing problem (72,000+ deaths last year in the US alone). Thus, we are developing tamper-proof medical prescriptions. The tech behind it is -based, non-fungible via (eventually ERC-721.X standard). This lets doctors generate unique QR codes and tie each prescription to a hash code, so that the pharmacy can acknowledge it before handing out medications. You won’t be able to overuse a prescription anymore, let alone fake one. This can be implemented in both paper and digital form — paper prescription is still(!) immensely popular here in France.
We are building it from scratch and here is what we’ve done in the second week 🙂
Meetings with institutions
We’ve met 10+ institutions we’re interested to work with, as the amount of meetings kept growing we figured out how big the problem we’re trying to solve was.
We had a lot of interesting conversations with these institutions, both about and medical prescriptions. The awesome part was the feedback we’ve received. The institutions we met were pretty enthusiast about what we’re doing even if they were kind of confused with the technology we’re using ( ♥️). But our job is to make our product so easy to use that they would not have to understand about how it works.
4 pharmacies working with us
We believe in execution. The better way to execute for Prescrypt is testing our product & improve it over and over again. But for sure, institutions to work with are needed.
We’re proud we convinced 4 pharmacies this week to work with us to test our product, get some feedback as long as we need.
Namely:
- GP pharmacy
- Tabary pharmacy
- Samaille pharmacy
- Popincourt pharmacy
Token standard chosen
We chose the ERC-721.X standard over the ERC-1155 as the long term tech. Both are multi-fungible (meaning every is unique, yet derives from one smart contract) and enable us to reduce gas costs in the long run. But the ERC-721 standard is much more popular in the industry. In human terms, that means it’ll be cheaper to emit prescriptions and scale our product accordingly.
Few tokens generated on a TestNet
We successfully generated our smart contract and deployed it to the public Testnet Rinkeby. This is thanks to SIMBA Chain, where our smart contract was easily deployed. You can find the contract on Etherscan here:
As you can see, there is the contract creation’s transaction as well as 6 transactions, accounting for the 6 test prescriptions we created.
Scannable QR Code
Having our test transactions done, each tied to a prescription, we can create QR codes linking back to them. By scanning one, the pharmacy can see “Success” on Etherscan. Of course, there is no UX and that URL is pretty nerdy, but we’ll fix that soon.
Here is a QR code linked to a successful generated prescription:
Website released
Website now online 🙂
What’s Next ?
- Link medical offices with pharmacies we are working with
- Add a function to our smart contract to claim prescription by the pharmacist
- Learn more about Web3.js and blockchain UX integration
- Wrap the smart contract into a UX that’s easy to use for both doctors & pharmacies
Many thanks for reading us, see you next week!
-Lyde &
Published at Sun, 24 Feb 2019 18:03:27 +0000
