Utilization of the Blockchain Network in The Public Community Health Center Medicine Supply Chain

Abstract

Distribution of medicine in the public health community centers has been regulated and monitored in an official distribution channel. However, counterfeit medications still circulate in the community. Circulation of counterfeit medicines is caused by factors from businesses, consumers, and medicine distribution supervision. The use of blockchain technology in supply-chain has shown new breakthroughs to overcome these problems since it ensures immutability, transparency, and decentralization of data. In this paper, we proposed a new blockchain-based Medicine Supply Chain Management (MSCM) system. The proposed system has been applied to medicine distribution channels between public community health centers in Indonesia. To evaluate the proposed system, we used JMeter as a benchmarking tool to measure the system performance in terms of transactions per second, latency, and the utilization of resources.