Cloud Model for Purchase Management in Health Sector of Peru based on IoT and Blockchain

Rodrigo Cubas Celiz, Yasmin Escriba De La Cruz, David Mauricio Sanchez

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Abstract

Purchase management of medical supplies is a critical and important process that affects the services provision quality. Nonetheless, it is facing a growing pressure to provide visibility and traceability of the purchase, to reduce fraud, to improve flexibility and to ensure communication between everyone involved. Currently, private health institutions in Peru choose to implant different software products within the same company with restricted visibility access to other concerned parties and based on information from a single source. A new alternative is Blockchain technology, since it provides a single source of shared truth to all participants and ensures that the information cannot be altered, thus offering high levels of transparency that, together with IoT technology, creates not only visibility about where things are, but also traceability, showing the current state of things.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE 9th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference, IEMCON 2018
EditorsSatyajit Chakrabarti, Himadri Nath Saha
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages328-334
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781538672662
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Jan 2019
Event9th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference, IEMCON 2018 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 1 Nov 20183 Nov 2018

Publication series

Name2018 IEEE 9th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference, IEMCON 2018

Conference

Conference9th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference, IEMCON 2018
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period1/11/183/11/18

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.

Keywords

  • Blockchain
  • Health Sector
  • IoT
  • Pharmaceutics
  • Purchasing
  • Traceability
  • Visibility

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