An Intelligent Application for Preventing the Counterfeit Medicines Through a Distributed Blockchain
Md. Abdullah Al Noman, Md. Jobaer Hossain, Md. Musa Kalimulla, Shamim Azad, Md. Anwar Hussen Wadud · 2021
Recently, one of the most challenging problems has been considered about the purity of drug or drug safety. This issue has a significant impact in various fields related to medicine, especially in the pharmaceutical industry's commercial area. It takes thousands of lives per year for fake drugs to be delivered and consumed. There are no successful approaches to handling the network of the phony medicine syndicate globally, and the stakeholders in the drug industry have to act under authentication among them. This paper focuses on explaining an approach to resolve the issue of counterfeit drugs by using Blockchain technology. Further, Blockchain is a distributed system where each node holds the same data and aligns with other nodes without worrying about losing data. The suggested approach is based on storing the drug distribution criteria from medicine manufacturing to the consumer on the Blockchain network. The effect of a medicine on a patient will be recorded in a database for future statistics. For keeping transaction records, an approved Blockchain will be applied, and only trusted people will be able to access the system and push data to the Blockchain.