Stratis, an end-to-end blockchain applications firms, will work with UK Meds to improve the online drug prescriptions niche. Announcing on its website, the firm reveals that the UK Meds-Stratis partnership will help prevent, among other things, multiple prescriptions. UK Meds is an online pharmacy that brings together doctors and patients over the internet. Headquartered in the UK, the pharmacy has operations in Asia and the Americas.

Blockchain solutions at the core of the UK Meds-Stratis partnership

The new partnership promises to help the pharmacy properly handle the more than 3,000 daily prescription orders. UK Meds will deploy Stratis’ blockchain solution to specifically track prescription orders. The blockchain platform will store all data regarding prescriptions. The distributed ledger technology will provide a “shared and immutable distributed ledger across a group of UK online pharmacies.” This way, patient data will be readily available to all online pharmacies. As a result, patients will only access prescribed quantities of medication.

The UK Meds-Stratis partnership will go a long way in improving the tracking of patients’ orders. Commenting on the development, UK Meds CEO Joe Soiza said:

“Despite screening our own customers by IP addresses, phone numbers, cookies and many other factors, there isn’t a cross-industry solution to identify patients attempting to obtain multiple orders of drugs, with opioids being a particular example. Clearly our entire industry needs to come together to ensure we do everything possible to protect the vulnerable and utilizing Stratis’ technology can help us achieve that.”

Smart contracts

With the solution, a unique patient identifier will reveal their identity across the platform. Stratis will make use of smart contracts to deploy the identifiers. As a result any previous request for medication across all participating online pharmacies will be referenceable using Stratis’ technology.

On its part, Stratis is happy to be part of the partnership that promises to solve a very pertinent issue.

“This is a great example of blockchain being deployed where its unique qualities will make a real difference. Using traditional IT solutions to solve this issue would require a significant expense and would undoubtedly be administered by a third-party organization. With blockchain, the industry can cooperate on the critical issue of patient safety using a shared version of the truth,” commented Chris Trew, CEO at Stratis.