Publications

Abstract : The COVID-19 outbreak highlighted the smart healthcare infrastructure requirement to speed up vaccination and treatment. Present vaccination supply chain models are fragmented in nature, and they are suitable for a pandemic like COVID-19. Most of these vaccination supply chain models are cloud-centric and depend on humans. Due to this, the transparency in the supply chain and vaccination process is questionable. Moreover, we con’t trace where the vaccination programs are facing issues in real-time. Furthermore, traditional supply chain models are vulnerable to a single point of failure and lack people-centric service capabilities. This paper has proposed a novel supply chain model for COVID-19 using robust technologies such as Blockchain and the Internet of Things. Besides, it automates the entire vaccination supplication chain, and it records management without compromising data integrity. We have evaluated our proposed model using Ethereum based decentralized application (DApp) to showcase its real-time capabilities. The DApp contains two divisions to deal with internal (intra) and worldwide (inter) use cases. From the system analysis, it is clear that it provides digital records integrity, availability, and system scalability by eliminating a single point of failure. Finally, the proposed system eliminates human interference in digital record management, which is prone to errors and alternation.