Cryptopharmaceuticals: Increasing the Safety of Medication by a Blockchain of Pharmaceutical Products.
J Pharm Sci
; 108(9): 2838-2841, 2019 09.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-31054889
The future health-care system will contain an ever expanding number of digital elements. The data stored both at a centralized health-care level and at a local, patient level (e.g., on a smartphone) will be core elements when deciding treatment strategies in a health-care scenario with Internet of things-based elements. The current way of manufacturing pharmaceutical products and related existing logistic solutions is not ready for such a revolution. One of the key challenges is cybersecurity and related robust public key infrastructure solution. This work introduces one element of a potential solution at a prototype level: the concept of cryptopharmaceuticals where pharmaceutical products are connected in a patient-specific blockchain of individual dosage units. This technology is based on the concept where each produced dosage unit has a unique information-rich pattern. A proof-of-concept smartphone application was applied to demonstrate the visualization of this blockchain at different levels. This includes the manufacturing of the individualized dosage unit, the patient view for his/her personal blockchain, and integration of these products into a health Internet of things system. This unbreakable blockchain of personal medication history will provide means to avoid counterfeit products and to enable innovative logistic solutions.
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Tecnologia Farmacêutica
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Efeitos Colaterais e Reações Adversas Relacionados a Medicamentos
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Blockchain
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Internet das Coisas
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Prognostic_studies
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Humans
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En
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J Pharm Sci
Ano de publicação:
2019
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Article