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. 2022 May 6;120:102544. doi: 10.1016/j.technovation.2022.102544

Table 5.

Open, axial and selective codes for pharmaceutical organizations.

Selective Code Axial code Symbolic Quotations from Interviews and Open Code
Pharmaceutical Organizations Drug Design Quantum computing techniques have the potential in the drug discovery, design and vaccine development in short span of time as compared to classical approaches that take years otherwise and save billions of dollars with adequate and accurate discovery (R13). (Open Code: Structured drug discovery)
It is also important to monitor the molecular interactions especially at atomic level while developing a drug. There are more than 20000 proteins in a human genome those need to be simulated to understand the interactions among existing and new drugs that is yet to be invented. Hence, quantum computing can lead the innovation in healthcare (R19). (Open Code: Quantum computing led interactions with other drugs)
Clinical Trials The reliability of a drug or vaccine correspond to potential of the computing system that can identify the useful information from noisy datasets, that can be further helpful design a response or develop the therapeutic relationship (R5). (Open Code: Faster and minimum trials with high accuracy)
To fasten the clinical trials through technology, one needs to advance computational power of classical system through both technology and mathematics to process the data of masses and avoid the usage of human and animals through powerful simulations (R13). (Open Code: Use of technology and mathematics to identify number of combinations for clinical trials).
Decision Support In today's time, there is huge data that is published and known by healthcare professional's right from molecule development to the product use in the case of disease. But from the development to the use by patients, there are number of processes, where large data needs to be compiled to take certain decisions in drug research (R6). (Open Code: Utilization of published and professional experience for decision making.
The deployment of quantum computing will offer special skills in the drug and vaccine development not only in the current pandemic, but also for future, where such computer networks can facilitate the combined decision of hospitals and pharmaceutical companies to identify the precise correlation and causations those are difficult for classical systems (R18). (Open Code: The decisions in different stages on the basis of multi-stakeholder data).