Blockchain Medicine – ePharmacy: A Mobile Application Leveraging Hybrid Blockchain to Solve Challenges in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

A mobile platform that incorporates Blockchain-based currency could provide an innovative solution for future medicine purchases. This research focuses on the design and implementation of a " ePharmacy "—a digital platform for medicine based on hybrid blockchain technology. We introduce the concept of crypto medicine, which removes the need for third parties in the buying and selling of medications. The proposed design incorporated the mobile application with the NEM blockchain, where manufacturers create digital medicines using NEM's blockchain namespace. Each pharmaceutical product is linked to the NEM cryptocurrency (XEM) and marked with a QR code. This proposed prototype model (an intelligent detector) activates the smart contract that connects all stakeholders in the pharmaceutical supply chain. The proposed mobile platform is successfully incorporated with the NEM cryptocurrency by assigning XEM to each medication, allowing all transactions to be tracked on the blockchain from manufacturer to end-user. The application(platform), built on Apple's iOS and developed with the nem2sdk Swift framework, helps prevent millions of dollars in substandard medicine from entering the global market each year.