A Comprehensive Drug Management System by Segregating Spurious and Substandard Drugs Using Blockchain Technology
Sourav Raxit, Jobair Hossain Gourob, Homayun Kabir · 2021 International Conference on Automation, Control and Mechatronics for Industry 4.0 (ACMI) · 2021
Nowadays, one of the most serious problem is spurious drugs in pharmacology. Some prominent research funding organizations stated that nearly ten to 30 percent of the medicines are fake in developing countries. This have now become a major worldwide problem. One of every ten medicines are either fake otherwise don’t follow standard of drugs in developing countries and making the situation worse there. It is very tough to standardize safety regulation of medicines because of the rise of internet pharmacies. Counterfeited drug passes through various distributed complex networks. So, it is hard to detect the counterfeited medicines. For distributed complex networks, the fake drugs get chance to get into the genuine drug supply chain. The security of the drug supply chain has become the utmost concern of public health sector. To get drug supply chain records which are secure, a drug management system is developed using Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain platform in this work. This developed system solves the problem by performing transactions of drug records on a blockchain platform to create a digital, smart drug supply chain. To limit the access to electronic drug records, a smart contract is launched. A flexible android application for manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies and consumers have been made to increase the traceability of the drug.