Since the authentication of digital prescription is a lengthy and error-prone process by pharmacy employees, nowadays in many countries around the world, the paper-based prescription is still the only valid document for patients to purchase their prescribed medication from a pharmacy. Moreover, as a prescription can contain a lot of private information about the patients and their illness, the security and privacy issues in using digital prescription also raise big concerns. Recently, Blockchain has been widely regarded as a promising technology to secure online business data and transactions. In this paper, we present BlockMeds, a Blockchain based online prescription system which enables the authentication of digital prescriptions. Meanwhile, to address the privacy issue during the authentication and transaction for buying the medication, a privacy protection strategy is also implemented in the system. BlockMeds provides the proof of concept for a Blockchain based online prescription system. It also demonstrates the need for privacy protection which is often overlooked in a Blockchain-based system. BlockMeds can be used as a prototype system by both researchers and industrial practitioners who are interested in Blockchain-based medical service systems.
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He, M., Han, X., Jiang, F., Zhang, R., Liu, X., & Liu, X. (2020). BlockMeds: A Blockchain-Based Online Prescription System with Privacy Protection. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 12019 LNCS, pp. 299–303). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45989-5_27
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