A Blockchain-Based Approach for Drug Traceability in Healthcare Supply Chain

Musamih, Ahmad; Salah, Khaled; Jayaraman, Raja; Arshad, Junaid; Debe, Mazin; Al-Hammadi, Yousof; Ellahham, Samer

doi:10.1109/access.2021.3049920

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“…We present the system architecture as well as the detailed algorithms that govern our proposed solution's working principles. We test and validate the system, as well as present a cost and security analysis, to assess its effectiveness in improving traceability within pharmaceutical supply chains [12].…”

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Blockchain-Based Model to Improve the Performance of the Next-Generation Digital Supply Chain

Rana

Kim

Pani³

et al. 2021

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In the era of the fourth industrial revolution, all aspects of the industrial domain are being affected by emerging technologies. Digitalization of every process is taking place or under process. One of the most important components common to every domain is the supply chain process. Organizations employ a digital supply chain to track the delivery of their products or materials. The digital supply chain is still suffering from a few issues such as no provenance, less transparency, and a trust issue. Blockchain technology, one of the emerging technologies, can be integrated with the supply chain to deal with the existing issues and to improve its performance. In this paper, a model is proposed to integrate blockchain technology with the supply chain to improve performance. The proposed model uses the combination of the Ethereum blockchain and the interplanetary file system to maintain the traceability, transparency, and trustworthiness of the supply chain.

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Section: Related Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain-Based Model to Improve the Performance of the Next-Generation Digital Supply Chain

Rana

Kim

Pani³

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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Section: Supply Chain and Health Asset Trackingmentioning

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“…Supply chains are complex structures that span multiple organizational and geographical boundaries and represent a critical infrastructure for medical services, especially in the healthcare sector (Musamih et al, 2021). For this, an efficient traceability of products in supply chains in the healthcare sector based on a permissionless blockchain was developed by Musamih et al (2021). With this solution, products are automatically tracked via smart contracts and decentralized off-chain storage, intermediaries are superfluous and the transaction history is unchangeably and securely documented (Musamih et al, 2021).…”

Section: Supply Chain and Health Asset Trackingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For this, an efficient traceability of products in supply chains in the healthcare sector based on a permissionless blockchain was developed by Musamih et al (2021). With this solution, products are automatically tracked via smart contracts and decentralized off-chain storage, intermediaries are superfluous and the transaction history is unchangeably and securely documented (Musamih et al, 2021).…”

Section: Supply Chain and Health Asset Trackingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Digital and Decentralized Management of Patient Data in Healthcare Using Blockchain Implementations

Westphal

Seitz

2021

Front. Blockchain

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Blockchain solutions offer efficient approaches for trustworthy data management, especially in the medical field when storing and processing sensitive patient data. Many institutional and industrial facilities have already recognized the importance of the technology for the health sector and have also formulated basic ideas, concepts and main use cases, but concrete implementations and executions are comparatively rare. This mini review examines current research on specific blockchain implementations in healthcare that go beyond the state of concept studies or theoretical implementation ideas and describes the most promising systems based on systematic literature research. The review shows that secure storage and easy access to complete patient data is becoming increasingly important. Blockchain technology can be used as a secure, transparent and digital way to meet these needs. Hybrid solutions consisting of conventional data storage and blockchain-based access management are increasingly being developed and implemented. The automation of blockchain processes through smart contracts is also recommended. The review further reveals ambiguities in the use of permissioned and permissionless blockchain frameworks, machine learning (ML) integration as well as the question of which data should be stored in the blockchain and how this should be viewed legally. Therefore, there is still a need for further research, especially on these aspects, in order to further establish the use of blockchains in healthcare.

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“…The Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) in the United States, has obligated pharmaceutical industries to inherent electronic systems that will identify prescriptive drugs while being distributed across the country [14]. Similarly, China requires all stakeholders in healthcare supply chains to use a specialized IT system to be able to record the information of products whenever they are sent to or from their warehouses [15]. Subsequently, several supply chains integrated traceability as an important part of establishing authenticity across their chains.…”

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Blockchain-Based Management of Blood Donation

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Today's a large number of blood donation management systems fall short in providing traceability, immutability, transparency, audit, privacy, and security features. Also, they are vulnerable to the single point of failure problem due to centralization. In this paper, we propose a private Ethereum blockchain-based solution to automate blood donation management in a manner that is decentralized, transparent, traceable, auditable, private, secure, and trustworthy. The proposed solution stores non-critical and large data off-chain using the decentralized storage of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). We present the system architecture, sequence diagrams, entity-relationship diagram, and algorithms to briefly explain the working principles of our blood donation management solution. We evaluate the performance of our solution in terms of efficiency and effectiveness through performing security analysis. We make our smart contract code publicly available on Github 1 .

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A Blockchain-Based Approach for Drug Traceability in Healthcare Supply Chain

Cited by 234 publications

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Blockchain-Based Model to Improve the Performance of the Next-Generation Digital Supply Chain

Blockchain-Based Model to Improve the Performance of the Next-Generation Digital Supply Chain

Digital and Decentralized Management of Patient Data in Healthcare Using Blockchain Implementations

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