Blockchain technology for enhancing supply chain integrity in the pharmaceutical industry

• Author Details:   
• Sakshi Waikar ^*
• Gauri Salave
• Atul Bendale
• Anil Jadhav

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Pharmacies have to effectively oversee their data. Blockchain is a cutting-edge technology that could improve safety and transparency for a range of pharmaceutical activities. Blockchain technology is a solution to the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), which was passed by the US Congress in 2013 to forestall drugs that are stolen, tainted, or counterfeit. Blockchain technology is a decentralized distributed ledger that secures a peer-to-peer network of transactions leveraging cryptographic techniques. These ensure that a product is safe and appropriate for sale to consumers. Blockchain offers solutions to increase the validity, reliability, and efficiency of drug production by ensuring that laws are easily followed. It also offers an opportunity to address one of the primary problems, which is the increase of counterfeit drugs entering the market and ending up in the hands of consumers or patients. The pharmaceutical industry claims that imitation pharmaceuticals pose a severe threat to society. False prescription drugs can have a direct or indirect detrimental effect on a patient's health, occasionally resulting in serious issues or even death. This counterfeiting, which puts patient safety at risk and harms the manufacturer's reputation, is the result of the pharmaceutical industry's poor supply chain management. By offering visibility and immutability of every point in the chain, blockchain technology can be used in supply chain management to provide assurance, security, traceability, and transparency. Blockchain, a relatively new electronic data management system, holds promise for accountability and transparency. All users of a computer network can examine a blockchain, which is a ledger of transactions, as well as each user has an identical copy of the ledger.