Enriching Drug Tracking Through Blockchain

Abstract

The human civilization progresses beyond contemporary conveniences, all aspects of life grow more sophisticated, and healthcare system is no exception. Individuals who are senior or incapacitated will benefit more from the breakthrough care delivery extrapolations. The pharmaceutical industries are the forerunners of this approach that perform tedious research into developing new and advanced drugs that are better and cheaper. These pharmaceutical companies work like any other companies where the scale of the economy and production is the driving factor towards the reduction of the costs of the medicines. This also has a side effect where a large number of medicines needs to be produced to keep the costs low that leads to an abundance of drugs that are not utilized by the time they are expired or not sold at the chemists. These drugs are often donated to the needy individuals at NGOs or other charitable organizations. But there isn’t any effective framework to ascertain that these organizations indeed receive the drug donations. For this purpose, a system for accountable drug donation is proposed in this publication that utilizes the blockchain Framework to improve accountability. The experimentations have been crucial in the determination of the reliability of the presented methodology. Keywords: Pharmaceutical product tracking, Blockchain Framework, Drug Donation.