A Model for Designing a Blood Supply Chain Network to Earthquake Disasters (Case Study: Tehran City)

Armaghan, Negar; Pazani, Mohsen Yaghoobi

doi:10.24874/ijqr13.03-07

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“…Efficient management of BCCs has been of interest to many researchers for a long time. Armaghan and Pazani (2019) developed an emergency supply network that could handle blood demands during critical situations. The authors developed a multi-level multi-objective mathematical model to decrease the cost of the blood supply chain network and maximise the reliability of the chosen blood transportation paths.…”

Section: Blockchain Applications In Supply Chain Traceabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain technology: a troubleshooter for blood cold chains

Asokan

Sunny

Pillai

et al. 2022

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Purpose Blood cold chain (BCC) represents a system for preserving the blood during its journey from the donor to the ultimate transfusion site. Existing BCCs have many drawbacks related to information transparency and information security. Secured and real-time information sharing in BCC can bring several benefits. The purpose of this paper is to summarise the issues in typical BCCs and to explore the scope of blockchain in the management of BCCs. Design/methodology/approach Issues in the existing BCCs are identified through a narrative review. To explain the potential of blockchain in mitigating these issues, a blockchain-based traceability solution is demonstrated with respect to a particular BCC scenario. The BCC management system discussed in this study makes use of the Ethereum blockchain’s smart contract feature and internet of things (IoT) technology. The smart contract is written in the solidity programming language and tested and validated using the Remix integrated development environment. Findings BCCs are concerned with several issues both from technical and non-technical perspectives. Blockchain technology is capable of troubleshooting the issues in the existing BCCs. Combining blockchain and IoT technology enables real-time information sharing among the entities. The demonstration presented in this work depicts how the blockchain-based smart contract can support operations in a typical BCC. Research limitations/implications This paper explores the scope of blockchain in BCCs through a demonstration. To get insights into its technical and economical feasibilities, further investigations are needed. Originality/value Blockchain-based traceability system presented in this work can be adopted in BCCs to ensure the quality of blood or blood products. Blockchain-based smart contracts can aid the BCCs to achieve a proper balance between blood shortage and outdating.

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Section: Blockchain Applications In Supply Chain Traceabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain technology: a troubleshooter for blood cold chains

Asokan

Sunny

Pillai

et al. 2022

JGOSS

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“…For example, Nagurney et al [21] proposed a model to minimize costs and risks by expressing the breakdown properties of blood as supply coefficients. Armaghan and Pazani [22] proposed a blood supply chain to handle urgent requests from blood units during the Iran earthquake. The authors build a multi-level, multi-objective model to find an optimal route based on the selected routes to transport blood.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The authors build a multi-level, multi-objective model to find an optimal route based on the selected routes to transport blood. The main contribution of [22] is to reduce the cost of the blood supply chain network and maximize reliability. In addition, Eskandari-Khanghahi et al [23] have developed a model that provides a combination of integer mixed linear programming while considering location, allocation, inventory, and distribution.…”

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Blood Management System based on Blockchain Approach: A Research Solution in Vietnam

Van¹,

Vo²,

Huong³

et al. 2022

IJACSA

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More and more new health care solutions are born based on the development of science and technology. The subjects who benefit the most, in this case, are not only patients (i.e., shorter healing time, faster recovery) but also medical staff, e.g., doctors/nurses (i.e., easy monitoring of the patient's recovery process, proposing new treatment). However, there are still products that have not found an alternative: blood and blood products. Regardless of how science and technology can affect all aspects of patient treatment as well as medical care, blood still plays an important role in the treatment method. In addition to the above, blood and blood products may only be obtained from volunteers (i.e., blood donors). The preservation process is also very difficult, and no medical facility has enough facilities to preserve them. Therefore, the current process of blood preservation and transportation is done manually and contains many potential risks (e.g., data loss, personal information collection). In addition to the above barriers, developing countries (including Vietnam) also face many difficulties due to limited facilities. It is for this reason that this paper aims at a Blockchain-based technology solution for efficient management and distribution of blood from blood products. On the one hand, the paper contributes to the limitations in the information management process of storing and transporting blood and its products in the traditional database being applied in medical facilities in the cities and provinces in the Mekong Delta (the West-South of Vietnam). On the other hand, the article offers technology-based solutions to increase transparency and reduce the fear of centralized data storage (i.e., security and privacy issues). We also implement a proof-ofconcept to evaluate the feasibility of the proposed approach.

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“…It also employs linear programming that considers location, allocation, and delivery of blood. The authors of [31] also proposed a supply chain solution to manage critical blood supply requests in crucial situations. Their model presented an algorithm to reduce the cost of operation for the blood supply chain.…”

Section: A Non-blockchain-based Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blockchain-Based Management of Blood Donation

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Today's a large number of blood donation management systems fall short in providing traceability, immutability, transparency, audit, privacy, and security features. Also, they are vulnerable to the single point of failure problem due to centralization. In this paper, we propose a private Ethereum blockchain-based solution to automate blood donation management in a manner that is decentralized, transparent, traceable, auditable, private, secure, and trustworthy. The proposed solution stores non-critical and large data off-chain using the decentralized storage of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). We present the system architecture, sequence diagrams, entity-relationship diagram, and algorithms to briefly explain the working principles of our blood donation management solution. We evaluate the performance of our solution in terms of efficiency and effectiveness through performing security analysis. We make our smart contract code publicly available on Github 1 .

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A Model for Designing a Blood Supply Chain Network to Earthquake Disasters (Case Study: Tehran City)

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Blockchain technology: a troubleshooter for blood cold chains

Blockchain technology: a troubleshooter for blood cold chains

Blood Management System based on Blockchain Approach: A Research Solution in Vietnam

Blockchain-Based Management of Blood Donation

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