Vaxina: Decentralized Vaccination Tracking System

Abstract

With the epidemic of Covid-19, a realisation has come into effect that the healthcare industry requires a more efficient method of storing non-tamperable vaccination certificates as well as sharing them with the relevant parties when required. As such, the need for efficient and secure vaccination tracking has led to the development of decentralized solutions. This paper aims to bring forth a Ethereum platform-based vaccination blockchain certificate system which supports authenticated consensual vaccination certificate sharing through the use of solidity smart contracts. We analyse the system architecture, implementation and evaluation, which will support the system's ability to resolve some of the security issues associated with centralised database systems such as low availability, integrity of the vaccination information as well as confidentiality and privacy of patient medical records. Vaxina system is a real-world implementation of a decentralized vaccination tracking system based on the Ethereum platform. It focuses more on the practical implementation and addresses some of the limitations of the previous proposed systems. It has been implemented and tested on the Ethereum blockchain and is available on GitHub for public use. The paper provides valuable insights for future work in the field of decentralized healthcare solutions.