Blockchain Based Ensuring Data Integrity In Healthcare Supply Chains

  • Unique Paper ID: 177599
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 12
  • PageNo: 1010-1014
  • Abstract:
  • The healthcare supply chain is a critical component in delivering life-saving medicines and medical equipment. However, it is vulnerable to data tampering, counterfeit products, and lack of transparency. This paper proposes a blockchain-based framework to ensure data integrity, traceability, and security throughout the healthcare supply chain. Leveraging the immutable and decentralized nature of blockchain, the system records every transaction—from manufacturing to distribution to delivery—on a transparent ledger accessible to authorized parties. Smart contracts automate verification and compliance checks, reducing human error and delays. The proposed solution enhances trust among stakeholders, minimizes fraud, and ensures the authenticity and integrity of healthcare supplies, ultimately contributing to a more secure and efficient system. The supply chain for healthcare is a complicated web of separate businesses, including manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, hospitals, patients, and suppliers of raw materials. Due to a number of reasons, such as centralised control, conflicting stakeholder behaviour, and a lack of information, tracking supply across this network is not simple. Medical supply chains are intricate networks that go over many organisational and geographic borders and serve as the foundation for services that are essential to daily living. Such systems' intrinsic complexity might bring impurities such restricted data provenance, opaqueness, and erroneous information. One effect of these restrictions in current supply chains is the emergence of counterfeit medications, which not only seriously harms public health but also severely undercuts the healthcare sector financially. In this study, we propose a decentralised off-chain storage system and blockchain-based methodology for effective tracking of goods in the supply chain of medical products. The smart contract ensures the provenance of data, does away with the need for middlemen, and gives all parties involved a safe, unchangeable record of transactions.

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  • ISSN: 2349-6002
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 12
  • PageNo: 1010-1014

Blockchain Based Ensuring Data Integrity In Healthcare Supply Chains

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