We already know what the medicine is, where it came from, which batch, which expiry, and how it moved through the supply chain.
Instead of asking patients to manually enter
Enter drug names
Re-type batch numbers
which may subjected the entered data to many manual data entry errors .
We should shift the focus to what really matters
Clear, accurate reporting of symptoms and adverse effects.
Serialization can automatically link:
The scanned pack → unique serial number,product,expire,batch, manufacturer, seller
So the patient’s role becomes simple and powerful:
Describe what you felt. When it started. How severe it was.
Also traceability can lead to detect early public health signals ,by analyze unusual cluster of sales signals in specific region(for example increase of anti-diarrheal products in specific region may reflect a problem in drinking water)