Practical Anti-Counterfeit Medicine Management System Based on Blockchain Technology

Abstract

Leveraging the transparency, immutability, and security of Blockchain technology for the drug supply chain, a variety of researches on counterfeit medicines has recently implemented. However, the majority of Blockchain-based medicine management proposals lack practicality. Additionally, the problem of cloning of drug has not yet been resolved explicitly. In this paper, we propose a novel Blockchain-based product ownership management method for anti-counterfeit medicine system to resist the cloning of drug and improve the practical applicability. Analysis and evaluation results of our proposed system outperform the related proposals based on criteria about a practical application, anti-clone, low cost, customer-oriented, and scalability. Furthermore, experimental implementation on a small scale shows that our proposed system works appropriately in a real environment.