Wasim Akram, Ramakant Joshi, Tanweer Haider, Pankaj Sharma, Vinay Jain, Navneet Garud, Nitin Singh
BACKGROUND: The pharma supply chain comprises various parties including distributors, manufacturers, raw material suppliers, regulators, pharmacies, hospitals, and patients. Due to the product's complexity and transaction flows, an efficient traceability system is needed in the pharma supply chain to identify the current and all previous product owners. Digitizing the track and trace process significantly improves regulatory oversight and guarantees product quality. A distributed platform for shared data that is immutable, trustworthy, accountable, and transparent in the pharmaceutical supply chain could be built using blockchain-based drug traceability...
February 23, 2024: Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy: RSAP