TY - JOUR
T1 - A Cyber Secure Medical Management System by Using Blockchain
AU - Rehman, Muhammad
AU - Javed, Ibrahim Tariq
AU - Qureshi, Kashif Naseer
AU - Margaria, Tiziana
AU - Jeon, Gwanggil
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2023/8/1
Y1 - 2023/8/1
N2 - In the pharmaceutical industry, problems like counterfeit drugs, including vaccines, and their supply chain management problems like transparency, immutability, and traceability exist. In the case of vaccines, it becomes more difficult to standardize and detect fake vaccines because the public has less awareness and knowledge about vaccines. Moreover, the increase in online pharmacies gives more opportunities for counterfeiting vaccines to enter the authentic supply chain management system. We present transparent, immutable and secure vaccine supply chain (TISVSchain), a framework based on blockchain to handle the issues of counterfeited vaccines and vaccine supply chain problems like transparency, immutability, and traceability. Our proposed framework can run both on the private and public blockchain. We have implemented the framework on public blockchain by using remix ide and the smart contracts designed by solidity language run on very low gas cost. We also carried out several experiments by changing the number of nodes and their block time to evaluate the performance of our framework in terms of transaction per second (TPS), gas cost, and propagation delay. Our proposed framework improves the security by using offline unique account addresses in blockchain-based frameworks and improves the overall efficiency of the framework by keeping the gas cost low, finding a way to decrease the number of lost blocks to keep low propagation delay, and keeping high TPS value. TISVSchain shows us promising results to improve vaccine supply chain management's overall performance, security, and efficiency.
AB - In the pharmaceutical industry, problems like counterfeit drugs, including vaccines, and their supply chain management problems like transparency, immutability, and traceability exist. In the case of vaccines, it becomes more difficult to standardize and detect fake vaccines because the public has less awareness and knowledge about vaccines. Moreover, the increase in online pharmacies gives more opportunities for counterfeiting vaccines to enter the authentic supply chain management system. We present transparent, immutable and secure vaccine supply chain (TISVSchain), a framework based on blockchain to handle the issues of counterfeited vaccines and vaccine supply chain problems like transparency, immutability, and traceability. Our proposed framework can run both on the private and public blockchain. We have implemented the framework on public blockchain by using remix ide and the smart contracts designed by solidity language run on very low gas cost. We also carried out several experiments by changing the number of nodes and their block time to evaluate the performance of our framework in terms of transaction per second (TPS), gas cost, and propagation delay. Our proposed framework improves the security by using offline unique account addresses in blockchain-based frameworks and improves the overall efficiency of the framework by keeping the gas cost low, finding a way to decrease the number of lost blocks to keep low propagation delay, and keeping high TPS value. TISVSchain shows us promising results to improve vaccine supply chain management's overall performance, security, and efficiency.
KW - Blockchain
KW - data management
KW - secure data
KW - supply chain
KW - vaccine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85144048120&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TCSS.2022.3215455
DO - 10.1109/TCSS.2022.3215455
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85144048120
SN - 2329-924X
VL - 10
SP - 2123
EP - 2136
JO - IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
JF - IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
IS - 4
ER -