ArticleVaccines2021
Blockchain Enabled Transparent and Anti-Counterfeiting Supply of COVID-19 Vaccine Vials.
Article in Vaccines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Literature review: Current trends and future prospects of digital vaccine supply chain support technology.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Pooled it
- Privacy-preserving vaccine supply chain management leveraging blockchain and self-sovereign identity.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Blockchain Applications in Core Healthcare Services: Patient Data, Research, and Institutional Processes.Blockchain in healthcare today · 2025Article
- Addressing conflicts of interest regarding the vaccine in infectious disease outbreaks based on good governance for health approach: a policy brief.BMC health services research · 2023Review
- BBSF: Blockchain-Based Secure Weather Forecasting Information through Routing Protocol in Vanet.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Applications of Social Media and Digital Technologies in COVID-19 Vaccination: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- A reliable vaccine tracking and monitoring system for health clinics using blockchain.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Improving the distribution of covid-19 vaccines using the blockchain technology: the Italian case study.Procedia computer science · 2023Article
- Vaccine supply chain coordination using blockchain and artificial intelligence technologies.Computers & industrial engineering · 2023Article
- A Traceable Vaccine Supply Management System.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Enhanced Gravitational Search Optimization with Hybrid Deep Learning Model for COVID-19 Diagnosis on Epidemiology Data.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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8 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected almost all facets of peoples' lives, various economic areas and regions of the world. In such a situation implementation of a vaccination can be viewed as essential but its success will be dependent on availability and transparency in the distribution process that will be shared among the stakeholders. Various distributed ledgers (DLTs) such as blockchain provide an open, public, immutable system that has numerous applications due the mentioned abilities. In this paper the authors have proposed a solution based on blockchain to increase the security and transparency in the tracing of COVID-19 vaccination vials. Smart contracts have been developed to monitor the supply, distribution of vaccination vials. The proposed solution will help to generate a tamper-proof and secure environment for the distribution of COVID-19 vaccination vials. Proof of delivery is used as a consensus mechanism for the proposed solution. A feedback feature is also implemented in order to track the vials lot in case of any side effect cause to the patient. The authors have implemented and tested the proposed solution using Ethereum test network, RinkeyBy, MetaMask, one clicks DApp. The proposed solution shows promising results in terms of throughput and scalability.
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