The MedMaps apps: Mobile application for finding, managing and commercialize pharmacy

Abstract

Nowadays, there are many inventions of technology, websites and mobile applications that are able to solve real-life problems people were once facing. The scope for this development of mobile application is focusing on medical field in which the purpose is to help people looking for medicine in the nearest pharmacy from their current location. The process of finding pharmacy is not as easy as finding any other shops, especially to locate the pharmacy that is selling the exact medical product that users are looking for. The consequences will be a time consuming and waste of money if they had to drive all away to the wrong pharmacy. That is how the idea of this MedMaps: Mobile Application for Finding, Managing and Commercialize Pharmacy is generated from. This application also provides Pharmacy a platform to commercialize their store and promoting their products. As for public users, they can also manage their pill consumption intake by setting an alarm that will always remind them when to consume the tablets. The development of this application has going through all required phases based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) software methodology. The analysis had been done and requirements are being documented properly. To ensure the efficiency of the end product, the literature review on existing system and technology are also important. In addition, the decision on the chosen software architecture plays an important role in organizing requirements, maintaining the quality and help supporting this application development. Other than software architecture and the results from requirements elicitation, low-fidelity prototype produced also helps in supporting the construction of this mobile application.