Kumar Dinesh, Tanwar Rajni, Kar Mahapatra Debarshi, Lohan Nisham, Dahiya Geetanjali, Jain Divya
School of Pharmacy, DeshBhagat University, Gobindgarh, Punjab-147301, India.
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, J. K. College of Pharmacy, Bilaspur-495550, Chhattisgarh, India.
Recent Pat Biotechnol. 2025 Jul 24. doi: 10.2174/0118722083347810250711232759.
Blockchain technology has drawn a lot of interest in the healthcare industry in recent years. Efficient data management is crucial for pharmacies. Blockchain technology is a novel technology that has the potential to make many pharmaceutical processes safer and more transparent. In 2013, the US Congress created the Drug Supply Chain Security Act [DSCSA] to prevent the distribution of stolen, contaminated, or counterfeit drugs. Blockchain technology serves as an answer to this problem as it enables the tracking and tracing the product from manufacturer to patient through an electronic, immutable, digitized tracking record of all steps from inventory to consumer in the drug supply chain. To ensure the safety of a peer-to-peer network of transactions, blockchain technology employs cryptographic methods to create a distributed ledger that is not centralized. Incorporating it into a product ensures its safety and marketability. Blockchain technology offers solutions to enhance the validity, reliability, and efficiency of medication manufacturing by facilitating easy compliance with legislation. Additionally, it offers an opportunity to address a major problem: the proliferation of counterfeit drugs that enter the system and ultimately reach consumers. The pharmaceutical industry's deficient supply chain management results in counterfeit and fake drug entering the supply chain and negatively affecting patients' health, leading to serious complications or even death. Supply chain management may benefit from blockchain technology's transparency and immutability at every step of the process, which increases confidence, security, traceability, and transparency. Blockchain technology, designed to manage electronic data, holds promise for enhancing clarity. Every user of a computer network has access to the same immutable record of transactions known as a blockchain.
近年来，区块链技术在医疗行业引起了广泛关注。高效的数据管理对药房至关重要。区块链技术是一种新技术，有可能使许多制药流程更安全、更透明。2013年，美国国会制定了《药品供应链安全法案》（DSCSA），以防止被盗、受污染或假冒药品的分销。区块链技术为这一问题提供了答案，因为它能够通过药品供应链中从库存到消费者的所有步骤的电子、不可变、数字化跟踪记录，追踪产品从制造商到患者的流向。为确保对等交易网络的安全，区块链技术采用加密方法创建一个非集中式的分布式账本。将其纳入产品可确保其安全性和适销性。区块链技术通过促进轻松遵守法规，为提高药品生产的有效性、可靠性和效率提供了解决方案。此外，它还提供了一个解决重大问题的机会：进入系统并最终到达消费者手中的假冒药品的激增。制药行业供应链管理的不足导致假冒伪劣药品进入供应链，对患者健康产生负面影响，导致严重并发症甚至死亡。供应链管理可能会受益于区块链技术在流程每一步的透明度和不可变性，这会增加信心、安全性、可追溯性和透明度。旨在管理电子数据的区块链技术有望提高透明度。计算机网络的每个用户都可以访问同一个称为区块链的不可变交易记录。
