Combating Counterfeit Drugs: A quantitative analysis on cracking down the fake drug industry by using Blockchain technology

Kumar, Anupam; Choudhary, Dharamainder; Raju, M. Srikrishnam; Chaudhary, Dev Kumar; Sagar, Raj Kumar

doi:10.1109/confluence.2019.8776891

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“…Tseng et al [ 21 ] outlined a database called Gcoin, which is based on blockchain, and which can store medication information for all of the authorized parties to a PSC in order to control the sourcing of resources without the need for a centralized government entity. Kumar et al [ 44 ] proposed a private system based on blockchain technology that would be managed by manufacturers, and which would provide real-time traceability of medications at any stage of the PSC. Kumar and Tripathi [ 45 ] proposed a drug traceability model based on blockchain technology that would be encrypted with a quick response (QR) security code to detect the correct APIs during the manufacturing stage to prevent counterfeit drugs from being introduced into the PSC.…”

Section: Pharmaceutical Supply Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Improper rules and regulations, unstable policies, and a lack of common codes will eventually affect the safety of the PSC and patients [ 2 , 7 , 9 , 44 , 58 , 59 , 60 ].…”

Section: Pharmaceutical Supply Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lack of visibility may happen in different areas, such as regulations, stock [ 8 , 58 ], collaborative relationships, mutual understandings, corruption of individuals [ 6 ], and unclear traceability [ 44 , 59 ].…”

Section: Pharmaceutical Supply Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Critical Success Factors and Traceability Technologies for Establishing a Safe Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

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Drug counterfeits have been an international issue for almost two decades, and the latest statistics show that fake medications will continue to penetrate legitimate pharmaceutical supply chains (PSCs). Therefore, identifying the issues faced by PSCs is essential to combat the counterfeit drug problem, which will require the implementation of technologies in various phases of the PSC to gain better visibility. In this regard, a literature review was conducted to fulfill the following objectives: (i) review the application of traceability technologies in various PSC phases to detect counterfeits; (ii) analyze the various barriers affecting the establishment of a safe PSC and the critical success factors used to overcome those barriers; and (iii) develop a conceptual framework and guidelines to demonstrate the influence of traceability technologies and success factors on overcoming the various barriers in different phases of the PSC. The major finding of this review was that traceability technologies and the critical success factors have a significant influence on overcoming the barriers to establishing a safe PSC.

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Section: Pharmaceutical Supply Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Improper rules and regulations, unstable policies, and a lack of common codes will eventually affect the safety of the PSC and patients [ 2 , 7 , 9 , 44 , 58 , 59 , 60 ].…”

Section: Pharmaceutical Supply Chainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Data in the blockchain cannot be modified by anyone in the network. Transaction latency and transaction throughput are concentrated more and the flow of drugs from manufacturer to patient is not concentrated [5]. The whole supply chain and the flow of drugs are not covered in this project which is the main drawback of this paper.…”

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Authentic Drug Usage and Tracking with Blockchain Using Mobile Apps

Murugamantham

et al. 2020

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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<span>Tracking drugs became more difficult using the centralized architecture. Decentralized architecture using blockchain technology overcomes the difficulties faced by the centralized network like availability and recovery. Avoiding duplicate or fake drugs created by fake manufacturers is a big challenge in the centralized network. Authentic stock is managed and the supply chain is tracked efficiently using this blockchain technology. This is addressed by using the smart contract which helps to track the movement of drugs from manufacturer to supplier, supplier to the reseller, reseller to pharmacies and finally pharmacies to patient. By default, duplicate drugs or fake drugs are completely avoided by using the blockchain technology. Patients buy drugs without any prescription and it creates a lot of problems in real life. So, Patients cannot buy drugs without authenticated doctor’s prescriptions with the help of a QR Code scanner attached with the prescription which will be implemented using a mobile application and cannot buy excess drugs which might lose someone’s life. With the help of inventory management, the maximum limit of drugs to avoid overdose and pharmacies cannot sell those overdose drugs. Consulting a doctor before buying a drug for even a simple illness is important and it is tracked by using prescriptions provided by authentic doctors. In this project, these challenges are addressed using the smart contract which is written in solidity language and runs on a public ethereum network.</span>

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“…at. [28] have proposed using the blockchain platform to record essential delivery and storage information. Their Blockchain is built upon on Hyperledger platform, moving the cost incurred when making transactions.…”

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Permissioned blockchain for data provenance in the supply chain with fine grained data authorisation

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Combating Counterfeit Drugs: A quantitative analysis on cracking down the fake drug industry by using Blockchain technology

Cited by 26 publications

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Critical Success Factors and Traceability Technologies for Establishing a Safe Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Critical Success Factors and Traceability Technologies for Establishing a Safe Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Authentic Drug Usage and Tracking with Blockchain Using Mobile Apps

Permissioned blockchain for data provenance in the supply chain with fine grained data authorisation

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