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Governance on the Drug Supply Chain via Gcoin Blockchain

As a trust machine, blockchain was recently introduced to the public to provide an immutable, consensus based and transparent system in the Fintech field. However, there are ongoing efforts to apply blockchain to other fields where trust and value are essential. In this paper, we suggest Gcoin block...

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Autores principales: Tseng, Jen-Hung, Liao, Yen-Chih, Chong, Bin, Liao, Shih-wei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6025275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29882861
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061055
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author Tseng, Jen-Hung
Liao, Yen-Chih
Chong, Bin
Liao, Shih-wei
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description As a trust machine, blockchain was recently introduced to the public to provide an immutable, consensus based and transparent system in the Fintech field. However, there are ongoing efforts to apply blockchain to other fields where trust and value are essential. In this paper, we suggest Gcoin blockchain as the base of the data flow of drugs to create transparent drug transaction data. Additionally, the regulation model of the drug supply chain could be altered from the inspection and examination only model to the surveillance net model, and every unit that is involved in the drug supply chain would be able to participate simultaneously to prevent counterfeit drugs and to protect public health, including patients.
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spelling pubmed-60252752018-07-16 Governance on the Drug Supply Chain via Gcoin Blockchain Tseng, Jen-Hung Liao, Yen-Chih Chong, Bin Liao, Shih-wei Int J Environ Res Public Health Opinion As a trust machine, blockchain was recently introduced to the public to provide an immutable, consensus based and transparent system in the Fintech field. However, there are ongoing efforts to apply blockchain to other fields where trust and value are essential. In this paper, we suggest Gcoin blockchain as the base of the data flow of drugs to create transparent drug transaction data. Additionally, the regulation model of the drug supply chain could be altered from the inspection and examination only model to the surveillance net model, and every unit that is involved in the drug supply chain would be able to participate simultaneously to prevent counterfeit drugs and to protect public health, including patients. MDPI 2018-05-23 2018-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6025275/ /pubmed/29882861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061055 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Tseng, Jen-Hung
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Governance on the Drug Supply Chain via Gcoin Blockchain
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title_full Governance on the Drug Supply Chain via Gcoin Blockchain
title_fullStr Governance on the Drug Supply Chain via Gcoin Blockchain
title_full_unstemmed Governance on the Drug Supply Chain via Gcoin Blockchain
title_short Governance on the Drug Supply Chain via Gcoin Blockchain
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6025275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29882861
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061055
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