Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Graduate Studies for Statistical Research - Department of Informatiom System and Technology

Medicine is an essential part of medical care, which improve patients' health and quality of life. There are various definitions of medication shortages, often also called 2drug shortages3, and in many cases Shortage of medication availability causes death. In Egypt, many complaints appear due to drug shortage in the period following the 25th January revolution. Death as a result of drug shortage was reported by 67%physicians{u2019} and 35% of participants [5]. When patients are looking for a specific drug, they take a lot of time because of drug shortages.Our aim was to develop of Mobile Phone Application, the main of the application is to help the patient to locate the drug in the nearest pharmacy. using this application, volunteers can share medical images and the pharmacy address with other patient users. The app guarantees patient privacy with removal of untrusted information by app administrator.We create a survey to evaluate a set of drug shortage data based on the reactions of the participants in using the application, whether they were looking for a drug or volunteers to add drug data, or both. In Future we will be Analyzing the results of the survey to improve our application in search for medicines in pharmacies, and thus increases the chance of life healthy and also clarifies the future vision of increasing users of the application, and thus contributes to increasing the volume of data that will be used in business intelligence, artificial intelligence and various data analysis methods

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