Improving Vaccine Safety Using Blockchain

【Author】 Cui, Laizhong; Xiao, Zhe; Wang, Jiahao; Chen, Fei; Pan, Yi; Dai, Hua; Qin, Jing

【Source】ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGY

【影响因子】3.989

【Abstract】In recent years, vaccine incidents occurred around the world, which endangers people's lives. In the technical respect, these incidents are partially due to the fact that existing vaccine management systems are distributively managed by different entities in the vaccine supply chain. This architecture makes it relatively easy to modify or even delete the vaccine circulation data maliciously, which makes tracing problematic vaccine hard and identifying the responsibility for a vaccine accident hard. To solve these issues, this article presents a blockchain-based solution to protect the whole process of vaccine circulation. We first propose a model to supervise the vaccine circulation process by incorporating existing regulatory practices. Then, we propose a blockchain-based tracing system to implement this model. The proposed system takes the blockchain as a global, unique, and verifiable database to store all the circulation data. Through data insertions and queries on the global and unique database, the proposed system achieves the protection of vaccine circulation. We also implement a proof-of-concept prototype of the proposed system. Experimental results confirm that the proposed system is beneficial.

【Keywords】Vaccine safety; supply chain; blockchain; smart contract

【发表时间】2021 JUN

【收录时间】2022-01-02

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