Med Secure: A Blockchain based Authenticated System for Counterfeit Medicine in DecentralizedPeer to Peer Network

Traceability plays a vibrant role in the medicine counterfeit supply chain management system. The drugs may contain some genuine ingredients and toxic ingredients at the production level. These drugs when consumed can cause serious health problems such as result in treatment failure or even death. To introduce fake drugs into the market and create public awareness, pharmaceutical companies have struggled for years to track their products throughout their supply chains. Therefore, to counteract this problem, a system is required to track and trace drugs. Advanced features in blockchain technology have proved that it can be able to handle the complex supply chain management and detect the products at every stage to prevent fake drug being distributed among different stake holders. Hence, in this paper, a decentralized system is proposed to track and trace the counterfeited medicines in the supply chain management. The system is also implemented on ethereum platform which is an advanced blockchain technology and a encrypted QR code mechanism used to efficiently track and trace the counterfeit drugs in the system.