Controlled Drugs Administration using Block Chain

Abstract

Controlled drugs are drugs that when used ethically may prove life-saving for patients but these drugs also have the potential for abuse, misuse, and addiction. Controlled drugs are under strict government regulations, but still few people manage to diverge these drugs from the ethical system. Few recent techniques that are considered for administration of controlled drugs are Electronic Health Records (EHR), Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics, IOT, etc. But the techniques mentioned above have some disadvantages such as EHR is centralized, ML requires high computing power and is less scalable, IOT devices are expensive and are vulnerable to cyber-attacks thus compromising sensitive information. The system proposed in this paper uses an Ethereum blockchain for administration of controlled drugs. Blockchain ensures transparency, traceability, immutability, decentralization and security in the system.