期刊
IEEE ACCESS
卷 9, 期 -, 页码 9728-9743出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3049920
关键词
Drugs; Supply chains; Medical services; Blockchain; Stakeholders; Smart contracts; Industries; Blockchain; drug counterfeiting; traceability; healthcare; supply chain; trust; security
资金
- Khalifa University of Science and Technology [CIRA-2019-001]
This article discusses the challenges within healthcare supply chains and proposes a solution based on Ethereum blockchain, utilizing smart contracts and decentralized storage to enhance product traceability and security. The focus of the research is on addressing data privacy and traceability issues in existing supply chains.
Healthcare supply chains are complex structures spanning across multiple organizational and geographical boundaries, providing critical backbone to services vital for everyday life. The inherent complexity of such systems can introduce impurities including inaccurate information, lack of transparency and limited data provenance. Counterfeit drugs is one consequence of such limitations within existing supply chains which not only has serious adverse impact on human health but also causes severe economic loss to the healthcare industry. Consequently, existing studies have emphasized the need for a robust, end-to-end track and trace system for pharmaceutical supply chains. Therein, an end-to-end product tracking system across the pharmaceutical supply chain is paramount to ensuring product safety and eliminating counterfeits. Most existing track and trace systems are centralized leading to data privacy, transparency and authenticity issues in healthcare supply chains. In this article, we present an Ethereum blockchain-based approach leveraging smart contracts and decentralized off-chain storage for efficient product traceability in the healthcare supply chain. The smart contract guarantees data provenance, eliminates the need for intermediaries and provides a secure, immutable history of transactions to all stakeholders. We present the system architecture and detailed algorithms that govern the working principles of our proposed solution. We perform testing and validation, and present cost and security analysis of the system to evaluate its effectiveness to enhance traceability within pharmaceutical supply chains.
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