Does the world need to change its vaccine distribution strategy for COVID-19?

Sharma, Rohit; Jain, Geetika; Paul, Justin

Abstract

During an emergency, there are many activities in a pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC) which are rendered ineffective. This study aims to propose a holistic approach for Big Data Driven Pharmaceuticals Supply Chain (BDDPSC) during medical emergencies. During unprecedented situations, the quality of healthcare services by using traditional supply chain becomes a challenge. The current study aims to generate a model wherein multiple entities will be the part of data entries like hospitals, clinical trials, medical practitioners, and drug manufacturing companies during COVID-19. The study has considered certified medical practitioners as the experts and based their responses for proposing a theoretical framework deploying E-Delphi–Qualitative Data Analysis approach. By critically examining experts’ responses and comments, the study formulated four major themes and ten sub-themes for smooth functioning of BDDPSCs during an emergency. The E-Delphi was conducted in two rounds to reach final consensus and to find a balance for PSC in terms of efficiency and quality. This research is novel wherein big data enabled PSC theoretical model has been formulated using a qualitative approach for handling COVID-19. The proposed framework provides an enriched way to capture data from the important link viz. “health officials” of PSCs.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 26, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Jul 13, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-08
• Deposit Date: Jul 19, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 14, 2026
• Journal: Technovation
• Print ISSN: 0166-4972
• Electronic ISSN: 1879-2383
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 126
• Article Number: 102819
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2023.102819
• Keywords: Management of Technology and Innovation; General Engineering
• Publisher URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016649722300130X?via%3Dihub
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