Blockchain-based solution for COVID-19 vaccine waste reduction

Musamih, Ahmad; Salah, Khaled; Jayaraman, Raja; Yaqoob, Ibrar; Al-Hammadi, Yousof; Antony, Jiju

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133619

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“…Utilizing a decentralized and transparent ledger allows for tracking the movement of goods and materials through the supply chain in real-time, improving efficiency and decreasing the risk of errors or fraud. Several attempts ( Agrawal et al, 2021 , Baralla et al, 2021 , Behnke and Janssen, 2020 , Feng et al, 2020 , Halgamuge and Guruge, 2021 , Kuhn et al, 2021 , Musamih et al, 2022 , Saurabh and Dey, 2021 , Song et al, 2021 , Uddin, 2021 ), have been made in this direction to use blockchain in the supply chain industry for various applications.…”

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Supply chain traceability and counterfeit detection of COVID-19 vaccines using novel blockchain-based Vacledger system

Munasinghe,

Halgamuge

2023

Expert Systems with Applications

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“… Musamih et al (2022) proposed a blockchain-based smart-contract solution for reducing COVID-19 vaccine waste in domestic environments despite still needing to incorporate real-time vaccine tracking.…”

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Supply chain traceability and counterfeit detection of COVID-19 vaccines using novel blockchain-based Vacledger system

Munasinghe,

Halgamuge

2023

Expert Systems with Applications

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“…The infiltration of fake, counterfeit, or substandard vaccines into the gray market can harm human lives [51]. For example, because of the lack of operational transparency, adversaries can successfully forge vaccine expiration or production data during manufacturing, processing, shipment, or consumption stages to increase profit [52,53].…”

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Blockchain and COVID-19 Pandemic: Applications and Challenges

Ahmad¹,

Salah²,

Jayaraman³

et al. 2023

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<p>The year 2020 has witnessed the emergence of coronavirus (COVID-19) that has rapidly spread and adversely affected the global economy, health, and human lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the limitations of existing healthcare systems regarding their inadequacy to timely and efficiently handle public health emergencies. A large portion of today's healthcare systems are centralized and fall short in providing necessary information security and privacy, data immutability, transparency, and traceability features to detect fraud related to COVID-19 vaccination certification, and anti-body testing. Blockchain technology can assist in combating the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring safe and reliable medical supplies, accurate identification of virus hot spots, and establishing data provenance to verify the genuineness of personal protective equipment. This paper discusses the potential blockchain applications for the COVID-19 pandemic. It presents the high-level design of three blockchain-based systems to enable governments and medical professionals to efficiently handle health emergencies caused by COVID-19. It discusses the important ongoing blockchain-based research projects, use cases, and case studies to demonstrate the adoption of blockchain technology for COVID-19. Finally, it identifies and discusses future research challenges, along with their key causes and guidelines.</p>

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“…Factors such as processing capability, information sharing and organizational flexibility were checked for pre and post-implementation and were improved in the process. Musamih et al (2022) proposed a BT-based solution to assess the life cycle of COVID-19 vaccines for reducing waste. The solution developed was tested, validated and proved to be scalable, affordable and secure for reducing overproduction and underutilization of vaccines.…”

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Analysis of the challenges for blockchain technology adoption in the Indian health-care sector

Dhingra

Raut

Gunasekaran

et al. 2023

JM2

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Purpose This paper aims to discover and analyze the challenges hampering blockchain technology’s (BT’s) implementation in the Indian health-care sector. A total of 18 challenges have been prioritized and modeled based on an extensive literature search and professional views. Design/methodology/approach An integrated multi-criteria decision-making approach has been used in two phases. Best worst method (BWM) is used in the first phase to prioritize the challenges with sensitivity analysis to validate the findings and eliminate a few challenges. In the second phase, interpretive structural modeling is applied to the remaining 15 challenges to obtain relative relationships among them with cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to classification analysis for their categorization. Findings The study’s results reveal that limited knowledge and expertise, cost and risk involved, technical issues, lack of clear regulations, resistance to change and lack of top management support are the top-ranked or high-intensity challenges according to the BWM. Interpretive structural modelling findings suggest that the lack of government initiatives has been driving other challenges with the highest driving power. Research limitations/implications This work has been conducted in the Indian context, so careful generalization of the results is needed. Practical implications This work will give health-care stakeholders a better perspective regarding blockchain’s adoption. It will help health-care stakeholders, service providers, researchers and policymakers get a glimpse of the strategies for eradicating mentioned challenges. The analysis will help reduce the challenges’ impact on blockchain’s adoption in the Indian health-care sector. Originality/value The adoption of BT is a novel concept, especially in developing countries such as India. This is one of the few works addressing the challenges to BT adoption in the Indian health-care sector.

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Blockchain-based solution for COVID-19 vaccine waste reduction

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

Supply chain traceability and counterfeit detection of COVID-19 vaccines using novel blockchain-based Vacledger system

Supply chain traceability and counterfeit detection of COVID-19 vaccines using novel blockchain-based Vacledger system

Blockchain and COVID-19 Pandemic: Applications and Challenges

Analysis of the challenges for blockchain technology adoption in the Indian health-care sector

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