PharmaChain: Blockchain-based drug supply chain provenance verification system

  • Sarmistha Sarna Gomasta*
  • , Aditi Dhali
  • , Tahlil Tahlil
  • , Md Musfique Anwar
  • , A. B.M.Shawkat Ali
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Over the last decade, pharmaceutical businesses have battled to standardize product traceability across the supply chain process, enabling counterfeiters to enter the market with counterfeit pharmaceuticals. As a result, an end-to-end product tracking system is crucial for ensuring product safety and eliminating counterfeit products across the pharmaceutical supply chain. In this paper, we introduce PharmaChain, a decentralized hyperledger fabric framework that leverages confidentiality, accountability, and interoperability. This system enables on-chain and off-chain storage for secured, rapid transactions, along with smart contracts establishing data provenance. To demonstrate security, we have provided double signing through the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm, hash data encryption, and 33% node attack. The purpose of this suggested framework is to engage particular governance disciplines to assess its effectiveness in improving drug traceability across the pharmaceutical supply chain to preserve public health by preventing counterfeit pharmaceuticals.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere17957
JournalHeliyon
Volume9
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2023
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
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Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • Drug counterfeit
  • Hyperledger fabric
  • Pharmaceutical supply chain
  • Usable security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General

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