Decentralized Trust in Healthcare: Understanding Pharma Chain Blockchain Solutions

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that and today the upcoming events today like uh uh soya Chandra from Kerala blockchain academy uh she is working as

a R&D engineer she will be presenting the part ma chain a blockchain based drug traceability system and then uh

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uh giving a presentation so that's all from my side and the stage is yours soya please go

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time yes it's my first time yeah can you introduce yourself please yes I'm Manish masan from tandum and I'm

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Elizabeth Hi how are you hanging in there thank you yeah

welcome har is this your first time uh har possible could you introduce yourself

yeah thank you soya go pleas okay sorry for the delay uh once again I'm welcome you all myself uh and

before that good evening to you all okay myself so Chandra I'm working as a r&t engineer in Kera blockchain

Academy so uh in this session uh I'm speaking about uh farma chain actually uh what is

former chain means it is a blockchain based Tru traceability system so in this session I'm speaking how a blockchain

can address critical challenges in the for pharmaceutical industry and the solution for eliminating the counterfeit

of drugs to enhancing the supply chain transparency okay so what are the problems we are facing now okay

currently we all are facing the counterfeit of drugs is it is it okay we all are facing the counterfeit of drugs

that may pose a significant risk to Public Health sometimes it may have cause f ality also so the current supply

chain system often a lack of transparency and traceability so uh this uh pharmaceutical uh supply chain

application we are implement we implemented in a blockchain based uh blockchain system we can improve the

traceability and transparency of that particular system so for that we uh introduced a solution that is Pharma

chain actually Pharma chain is a blockchain based direct traceability system that enhances the uh transparency

of the pharmaceutical products so the drug traceability is not just a compliance it's about saving life and

maintaining the trust in the Healthcare System every year millions of counterfeit drugs are entered into the

market that may cause a severe health issues sometimes it may cause the ferality also so these problems we can

uh reduce or avoid by using this type of solutions this type of Pharma Chain Solutions Pharma chain is a blockchain

based direct traceability system so in this system this uh the system enable the stakeholders to authenticate the

drugs at every stage of the supply chain every stage means from the manufacturer to the end user the the manufacturer to

customer so who is uh produced this uh drugs who is making the drugs is it a authorized manufacturer or it is a fake

manufacturer manufacturer that all things can be uh identified or verified by the

system so and after that that is this is verified by a controller and after that it is uh given to the end user okay with

the help of some stages all these all these stps all these things are recorded in the blockchains that is how

the stakeholders do who are the part of the supply chain or who are the part of this uh this application they can uh

understand or they can identify the identify the uh drugs authenticity uh through uh through how uh they can

eliminate the counterfeit of trugs from the market so and this is the application

architecture so uh application this is our PHA chain application architecture so in this architecture we have this uh

five participants manufacturer controller distributor customer and pharmacist okay so this manufacturer can

create the drugs who is creating drugs that is manufacturer and after that that drug is verified by this

controller then this verified drug is given to the distributor okay distributor or

pharmacist so this verified drug is uh given to the end user that is customer so this customer can get to the verified

drug that means uh so after this chips the after this uh this phase this drug got certified that certified drug is

available to this distributor or a pharmacist so from this pharmacist this pharmacist can issue the certified drug

to the customer so that is how uh can make a transparency or make a

trustful pharmaceutical system and uh to the Common People okay so this is the application

architecture so so this farach chain application is implemented in a blockchain uh Network

here we are using a permissioned blockchain that is hyperledger fabric because these all this uh drugs or this

medical um medicine uh details all all the things are sensitive informations confidential informations or

confidential things so we are choosing a permissioned blockchain networks that is why uh we are preferring hyp fabric it

is a permission Network so first we have to build a network okay so for that uh Network we

have these five participants manufacturer controller distributor pharmacist and

customer so by using these five participants make a network okay make a fabric Network make

a permissioned network okay after that first we have we make a network or

build a network after that based on the use case okay here our use case is uh tracing the drugs or

providing the transparency of the pharmaceutical system so based on that we are uh creating the uh smart contract

okay so that collection of smart contract we call it as chain code so in the chain code part we have two uh smart

contracts one is truck contract and another one is order contract drug contract means in this drug contract

contains all the basic functionalities of the drugs means how to create a drug then how to read the particular drug and

how to display all the drug details all the basic function functionalities are included in this Dr TR

contract and one more contract is there that is order contract so this order contract is make it as a private

contract between the between the this distributor and the manufacturer and similarly this

pharmacist and the manufacturer why we are making it as a uh private contract because So based on

the order based on the order this manufacturer can issue the batch of medicine to this

distributor okay so this order order details will be uh keep it as private to this Manu between this manufacturer and

distributor okay so the based on the order this manufacturer can uh give uh given to the particular uh medicine

details to the distributor okay so that is the order

contract so after making this network okay after uh creating this

network this is the network of the this phach chain Network okay so this phach chain Network we have these participants

one is manufacturer then uh pharmacist then uh customer then controller and distributor okay all these participants

are included in this network by using these uh participants details we build a network by using hyper

fabric okay then after building the network we based

on the use case based on the use case we uh develop the chain code in our chain code uh we have two contracts that there

are drug contract and Order cont right then we are deploy the particular chain code to the uh the network okay we

already uh described the network with the five participants so this uh chain code is deployed on the particular

Network then after the successfully deploy this chain code to This n uh fabric Network you can see this the

chain code invoke is successful that means the chain code is successfully deployed on the

n okay here some transactions are listed you can see the transactions uh here some uh drugs are created after that one

functionality uh I'm coring that is get all drugs by using this G all drugs you can see all the drugs are

listed okay in that uh drug details you can see one field that is quality that quality is uh quality field is initially

not finalized that means initially the manufacturer create all these drugs with these details what are the details we

want or including that details the manufacturer can uh create the drugs okay here we are using this drug name

drug ID then dat of manufacturer then batch number then the manufacturer name means the manufact company and the date

of expiry and one more field is there quality okay and also origin verified is there origin verified is used to

checking the authentication of the manufacturer if the manufacturer is a genuine licensed manufacturer then this

field will be set as initially it is false after checking the controller this controller can uh replace this field as

Pro okay then after that uh you can get this result this is the final result there in Dru contract

you can see the certified drug in certified drug F function uh the particular drug is the certified okay so

this drug is certified by the controller in controller there is a function set drug Quality Function so this Setra

Quality Function is initiated by the controller one of the par participant in our Network so that controller can set

the drug quality as suppose the drug quality by checking the drugs details it's authentication it's uh manufacturer

details and its a uh date of expiry know by checking all that details the drug controller can set the quality as good

or bad okay if the quality is good then the drug is certified with certified if the the quality is uh not

good bad then that particular drug is not certified okay so likewise this

certified drug is passed to the customer the end user so the end user can check this uh particular drug is certified or

not likewise suppose this is a sample application or sample demonstration

likewise we can ass set it as suppose imagine you are a pharmacist then uh suppose you the receiving a shipment of

a new batch of medication uh you simply scan we can set in the uh set a QR code setting in in the controller part also

okay that the controller can set a QR code also in this functionality so this pharmacist can uh simply scan this QR

code then then see the complete journey of the this particular drug that means who is manufactur manufacturing this

particular drug and when it is uh made and uh what is the expired date of this medicine and this particular

manufacturer is a licensed manufacturer or not all that things we can track with by scanning this QR code

scan okay so then this by confidently this particular pharmacist can sell this particular medicine to the customer or

patient okay so this is the pmer chain blockchain based tra traceability system and

also uh in this farmer chain uh these are benefits of the uh farma chain uh Fara

for in the case of Manufacturers can reduce the risk of the counterfeit of drugs okay so that is how they can this

manufacturers can enhance the transparency supply chain transparency and the case of

Distributors Distributors can simply tracking and uh reduces the paperwork so all these transaction all these

operations are recorded in the blockchain if it is immutable uh so so this uh this can simplifies okay

simplifies and tracking may be easy so for for that this improve the overall operations operation efficiency

also improves in the case of Distributors and similarly the pharmacy case I already uh told this pharmacist

can uh confidently uh confidently sell their medicine to the customers because uh by through that QR code

through that certified drug uh they can ensure that it is a certified it is a good medicine so they can confidently

sell uh sell the particular medicine to the customers and the customer end user that

is customers can easily track the origin and the what are the Journey of the particular medicine who is uh made by

this medicine and when it is created and uh what are the operation so what are the operations uh happens on that

particular medicine all that things can be tracked by the customer so through that this uh traceability of the drug uh

drugs is a traceability of drug is very helpful in this uh when it is implemented in

blockchain so uh in Pharma chain uh application drug tra traceability uh in direct

traceability is a powerful and secure uh secure operations because it is implemented in uh implemented as a

blockchain Solutions okay so any questions you can ask

uh thank you soya it was a very good uh presentation and Jim you can go ahead like uh you can unmute and you can speak

thanks um just one question so we have a um a drug contract um that and we have an order

contract the order says you know I want to order that drug I assume the drug contract and this is what I don't know

the drug contract does defines the drug itself as a product and whether or not that drug is has been certified so I

assume the drug contract deals with the drug as a product correct drug is yeah drug is actually in

drug contract contain the basic functionalities of the drugs if suppose how to create the

drugs and uh how to view the drug that type of basic functionalities are included in the drug contract right so

when I look at your whole ecosystem which makes sense to me um we first have to create the drug the controller has to

certify the drug as being a valid drug after that in theory the drug is now certified and available to be ordered by

somebody on the network um so at that uh by a distributor let's say so the distributor can place an order for that

drug because it's been certified as part of that somewhere I assume there's actually inventory uh there's an

inventory contract I'm guessing am I right about that sorry because when I place an order

for the drug that order quantity for a certain date and time and location that's what the order

is going to be for the drug so somewhere there would have to be a contract to fulfill the inventory that that order um

requires as a shipment correct correct actually uh nobody can inter inter interact with the order contract

because in order contract there is a uh file is there because that is a private contract why it is called a private

contract means uh there is some file that file we call it as collection file so that in that collection file we

mentioned to the participants list or me Members list so only that members can interact with the order contract if supp

the members of that collection file is manufacturer and distributor then that distributor and manufacturer can only uh

interact with the order contract yes it makes sense to me that the order contract is a private contract between

the parties in the order which would be the supplier and whoever the uh uh uh client is that's placing the order

that's a private contract that makes sense my question is what I don't see in the network model is somewhere they're

actually has to be inventory uh to fulfill the order you can't just say here's an order contract somewhere there

has to be inventory that you're consuming to fill that order correct

yes okay so all I'm saying is I didn't in the model I I understand it makes sense to me what you'd explain the drug

contract does that makes a lot of sense then separately once I have the manufacturer saying okay this drug has

now been certified I as a manufacturer can start producing the drug creating inventory to your point as you showed

there is an order contract the network so a customer can place an order uh for that drug from the manufacturer all I

was saying is it does look like somewhere in there there's conceptually an inventory contract that tracks the

inventory ins and outs as that drug is produced by the manufacturer so that it can be shipped to the uh client to

fulfill the order if that makes sense yes yes yes okay all right thanks thanks for answering the question

okay e any other questions and I could see there are uh

uh few new joiners do you want to introduce yourselves you can unmute and introduce

yourself thank you Jim and thanks for the questions also

so any more questions from the audience uh okay then once again thank you soya and uh like our next meeting

will be on [Music]

um October 16th at the same time that is uh 8:30 p.m. uh Indian Standard Time 300 p.m.

GMT 11: a.m. ET and I suppose for uh us it is 800 a.m. right I I suppose that that's the right

time uh yes for Pacific you're right it is 8 8 yeah yeah thank you thank you

so I hope this Jim has cleared that doubt yes you did yeah I was just looking for that one I didn't see it on

the diagram but conceptually you're right it does exist so yeah thanks for clearing that up I appreciate it okay

thank you and we have uh Carl join from South Africa thank you for joining Carl and

uh yeah sharani you have something to say you have joined for the first time right yes Jim thank

you we will have the introductions and then we will also drop yes yes shikar you can introduce yourself

aay tambi do you want introduce yourself there is one more person thees hello ma'am am I audible yeah now you

are audible hello everyone I'm shikar Rani I am a research scholar from Banaras in

University in computer science department I am also working on vaccine supply chain with blockchain and I have

a lot of doubt that's why I'm join this meeting and I have uh I have uh the knowledge about this meeting through a

friend he suggest me to join this meeting maybe I can get my answer of my queries

yes that's great and all the best for your research as well as like uh uh get your LF

IDs created uh Linux Foundation IDs so uh and like uh subscribe to the

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check the calendar invites so that also you can download and keep it so the meeting notification will also be

coming and okay ma'am yeah uh ma'am uh can I get some email ID like so Chandra ma' IND yours where I

can uh put my queries directly to you okay so like

uh with hyperia I have my this

ID let me put it over here it is B

bft at B world so I use it only for this open source purpose so you can especially for this

uh uh LX Foundation projects so we have aay tambi here he yeah like anyone

want yeah you can go ahead please thank you ma'am for this email ID thank you so much yeah uh soya if you

want to share your ID please do and you can connect with um Kera blockchain people also they too will be uh happy to

help you and we have aay t over here he is a student at Kerala blockchain Academy so thank you aay for joining

even though you are on travel we have Nira here thank you Nira so if anyone want to like yeah you

want to share [Music] something okay okay

hi Carl you want to speak yeah that's fine uh has some mic issues that's

fine um so anyone want to share anything to The Forum nothing like we can uh land of the

meeting today like yeah soya has also shared the email ID you can see that

shika thank you soya okay thank you yeah once again thank you everyone and thank you soya it

was a great presentation and like we could get the details of what Pharma chain does and it is a very useful

application also thank you very much okay thank you everyone have a

great day good night and car says thank you so much from South

Africa yes uh we know that we are a international Forum so

like have a good day good evening good night thank you