A blockchain-driven framework designed for pharmaceutical community to secure and trace the trail of drug supply chain

Abstract

Our quality of life relies heavily on health products, which marks our dependence on the pharmaceutical industry. Drug safety is very important to ensure that our life-savers do not turn out to be the cause of our death. Due to the complicated and non-transparent supply-chain management that exists within this industry, we have to face the unfortunate risks of counterfeit drugs. Moreover, drug counterfeiters are taking advantage of people's vulnerabilities during COVID-19 and are making the situation even worse. A blockchain-based platform can make the process of drug de- velopment, production and marketing far more e cient and trackable compared to the existing system. Everything can be planned out, recorded and traced by a decen- tralized and distributed ledger technology. This will give end-consumers the control to monitor the products they receive. Our thesis paper aims to observe the issue with the existing supply-chain of pharmaceutical drugs and create a trustworthy infras- tructure which will e ectively make the overall process easier, while ensuring drug safety. We have used Hyperledger fabric, an open source enterprise-grade framework under the Hyperledger umbrella, to execute secure and well-planned transactions of drugs.