Critical Analysis Of Ecommerce

1. Introduction:

E-commerce stands for Electronic Commerce; it is a kind of trading in products and services using electronic networks and the internet. Electronic commerce depends on technologies such as online marketing and transaction processing including buying and selling, fund transfer, projects, contracts and so on. E-Commerce can service all business sectors including health sector subject of our study. Definition of E-commerce

It is a type of business model that enables a business entity or firm or individual to conduct business over an electronic network, usually the internet. Electronic commerce operates in all four of the major market segments:

• Business to business (B2B).

• Business to consumer (B2C).

• Consumer to consumer

Any service provider will benefit significantly from E-Commerce in managing the CRM (Customer Relationship Management). Different industries adapted E-Commerce for different reasons, some of them were pioneering in implementing E-Commerce Solutions, and other are catching up.

The Healthcare sector is one of the most important sectors affecting human’s lives; it has to be the most efficient and effective sectors, and its data must be absolutely accurate and available all the time. Its very profitable and critical sector, but nevertheless they were lagging behind in getting benefited from the E-Commerce concept, and they may be considered one of last industries that adapted E-Commerce in their businesses.

In this paper, we will search the uses of the E-Commerce in the healthcare sector, what can be adapted as part of this technology, and what is still impossible to digitalize and emprise the E-Commerce theory. Defiantly there are some major challenges in the healthcare sector in implementing E-Commerce that we will try to identify and try to find solutions for, and with the current advancement in technologies of the healthcare, it will make it easier to add more and more functions to the E-Commerce