How an Enterprise Blockchain Application in the U.S. Pharmaceuticals Supply Chain is Saving Lives

Mattke, Jens; Maier, Christian; Hund, Axel; Weitzel, Tim

doi:10.17705/2msqe.00019

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“…These can potentially be solved by enhancing the data management capabilities using blockchain technology. Blockchain can be used to improve patient outcomes, lower costs, enhance compliance and ensure security, transparency and better use of healthcare data ( Mattke et al, 2019 ). The product provenance information can be well-kept in blockchain supported data base and could be provided to all related parties.…”

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“… 119 Mackey et al (2019) Adoption challenges for blockchain technology in healthcare sector are studied and found to be interoperability, scalability, managing storage capabilities, social acceptance and standardization challenges. 120 Mattke et al (2019) In this paper, authors provide several examples on how blockchain is helping pharmaceutical SC and subsequent benefits for the healthcare industry. 121 Padmavathi and Rajagopalan (2019) In this paper, authors propose a framework for using blockchain technology for cold chain pharmaceutical products.…”

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Blockchain technology in supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research opportunities

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Somani

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Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Re

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Highlights Evaluate 178 research articles in the field of blockchain implementation in supply chains. Identify the current trends of research on blockchain in different domains of supply chain operations. Examine various supply chain functions that can be enhanced through blockchain technology. Present strong excerpts of blockchain applications in supply chains across various industrial sectors. Suggest managerial implications, highlight challenges and build a future research agenda.

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Blockchain technology in supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research opportunities

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Choi

Somani

et al. 2020

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Re

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“…As for logistics and shipping, blockchain will be able to speed up cross-border shipping processes [43], reducing bureaucracy and paperwork at customs through the use of smart contracts and guaranteeing the origin and provenance of the products [44]. Several projects have been launched including Tradelens [45] for maritime logistics and Mediledger [46] for the drug supply chain.…”

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The Unknown Potential of Blockchain for Sustainable Supply Chains

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The growing attention to emerging technologies has raised several doubts regarding the sustainability aspects. Among the new technologies, blockchain has laid the foundations for a revolution in the financial field but also in the energy, tourism, medical, industrial and supply chains sectors. Through a systematic literature review, 37 documents were analyzed to describe the sustainable aspects generated using blockchain in supply chains. Therefore, the results achieved provide two levels of analysis. The former highlights the impact of the adoption of blockchain in supply chains based on the three dimensions of sustainability: environmental, economic and social. The latter shows the positive and negative impacts of each form of sustainability. The purpose of the work is to summarize the current state of the art in order to propose a future development agenda based on the need to simulate and define a measurability for each dimension of sustainability. Finally, the study provides a broad overview of practical and managerial implications for entrepreneurs and researchers. On the one hand, the work shows how the use of blockchain improves the profits and reputation of companies. On the other hand, it highlights several research gaps to be investigated and considered by researchers.

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“…The conventional blockchain application would allow participants to obtain sensitive private data about their competitors. To eliminate any risk of competitors acquiring sensitive information about each other, our PMS private blockchain should build a zero-knowledge proof algorithm mechanism ensuring that competitors cannot see the transaction data of their competitors, while allowing transactions to be validated [34].…”

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Blockchain technology applications to postmarket surveillance of medical devices

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Expert Review of Medical Devices

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Introduction: The amount of mandatory data that needs to be analyzed as part of a medical device postmarket surveillance (PMS) system has grown exponentially in recent times. This is a consequence of increasingly demanding and complex regulatory requirements from Health Authorities, aimed at a better understanding of the medical device safety evaluation. Proactive approaches to PMS processes are becoming more necessary as regulators increase the scrutiny of device safety. New technologies have been explored to address some of the challenges associated with this changing regulatory environment. Areas covered: This paper focuses on the different technical aspects of blockchain and how this new technology has the potential to support the ongoing efforts to improve the PMS system for medical devices. Expert opinion: To address these challenges, we suggest to generate a private PMS data permissioned blockchain with a proof-of-authority consensus mechanism, to which only a restricted number of designated and audited participants have authorization to validate transactions and add them to the PMS data blockchain ledger. Blockchain has the potential to support a more efficient approach, which could offer many advantages to the different stakeholders involved in the PMS process, such as supporting with new regulatory initiatives.

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How an Enterprise Blockchain Application in the U.S. Pharmaceuticals Supply Chain is Saving Lives

Cited by 71 publications

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Blockchain technology in supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research opportunities

Blockchain technology in supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research opportunities

The Unknown Potential of Blockchain for Sustainable Supply Chains

Blockchain technology applications to postmarket surveillance of medical devices

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