Background In the modern world, millions of people suffer from fake and poor-quality medical products entering the market. Violation of the rules of transportation of drugs makes them ineffective and even dangerous. The relationship between the various parts of the supply chain, production and regulation of drugs is too hard and has many problems. Distributed ledger technology is a distributed database, the properties of which allow us to track the entire path of medical products from the manufacturer to consumer, to improve the current model of the supply chain, to transform the pharmaceutical industry and prevent falsified drugs reach the market. Objective The aim of the article is to analyze the distributed ledger technology as an innovative means of poor-quality pharmaceuticals prevention to reach the market as well as their forehanded detection. Methods Content analysis of web sites of companies developing distributed ledger technology solutions had been performed. Five examples found with a google search engine by keywords “distributed ledger technology”, “blockchain”, “pharmaceuticals” and “supply chain” were examined. Analysis of relative scientific publications had been made. With the help of generalization and systematization methods, services provided by these companies were analyzed. The visual model of the supply chain was created with Microsoft Visio software. Results The analysis results contain a principle scheme of distributed ledger technology implementation to achieve the objectives. The analysis of present-day pharmaceuticals supply chain structure and the distributed ledger technology capacities to improve pharmaceutical companies has been carried out and presented. Furthermore, the article allows getting acquainted with today’s projects released to the market as well as the prognosis of the distributed ledger technology in pharmaceutical industry enhancement in the future.

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分布式账本技术作为降低劣质药品流通风险的措施

背景在现代世界，数以百万计的人因进入市场的假冒伪劣医疗产品而受苦。违反药物运输规则使它们无效甚至危险。药品供应链、生产和监管各环节之间的关系太硬，问题很多。分布式账本技术是一个分布式数据库，它的特性使我们能够跟踪医疗产品从制造商到消费者的整个路径，改进当前的供应链模式，改造医药行业，防止假药进入市场. 目的本文旨在分析分布式账本技术作为一种创新手段预防劣质药品进入市场及其正手检测。方法 对开发分布式账本技术解决方案的公司的网站进行了内容分析。研究了通过谷歌搜索引擎通过关键词“分布式账本技术”、“区块链”、“制药”和“供应链”找到的五个示例。对相关科学出版物进行了分析。借助概括和系统化的方法，对这些公司提供的服务进行了分析。供应链的可视化模型是使用 Microsoft Visio 软件创建的。结果分析结果包含实现目标的分布式账本技术实施的原理方案。对当今医药供应链结构和分布式账本技术能力进行了分析，以提高医药公司的能力。此外，本文还可以了解当今发布到市场的项目以及分布式账本技术在未来制药行业增强中的预测。