CFDD (CounterFeit Drug Detection) using Blockchain in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Abstract

Counterfeit drugs is an expanding serious issue associated with the healthcare industry which causes extreme threats to the society. The traceability of the drugs throughout the pharma supply chain is a difficult task. Another serious issue in combating counterfeit medicines in healthcare systems is the maintenance and sharing of health records. The security of E-health records is of prime concern as they are prone to confidentiality and integrity threats. The negligence of these threats might have severe consequences to the healthcare systems like death of the patient. Thus the need arises to design a blockchain based system which helps in fighting with the falsified medicines and ensuring the security of e-health records. In the proposed system the data integrity is ensured through the posed block-chain technology and authentication is assured by the Keyless Signature Infrastructure which ensures the privacy of digital signature. The advance features of Blockchain makes it capable of giving a basis for complete traceability of medicines from manufacturer to end patients, and the ability to detect counterfeit medicines or drugs.