Blockchain-enabled secured medical supply chain management

The medical supply chain management revolves around regulating medical goods and services from the producer to the ultimate user. The supply chain could be defined as a set of resources required to deliver products and services to the customer. Supply chain management is a complex and fragmented process in the medical industry. The medical supply chain enables the procurement of the required resources and delivery of the necessary equipment to the patient by ensuring that the healthcare facility has the required inventory. To complete the process, information and physical goods regarding medical services and products go through a personalised regress process based on the needs of manufacturers, hospitals, providers, insurance companies and regulatory agencies. However, promoting efficiency in the medical supply chain creates substantial opportunities for reducing costs across the organisation by hospitals and private practitioners. The medical supply chain involves the management of downstream and upstream relationships with customers and suppliers to deliver optimised customer value at less cost throughout the supply chain. The standards of the hospital are focused on making sure that the physicians are giving priority to the customers. Medical supply chain management revolves around distributing and procuring medical equipment from the inventory to the patient. The healthcare organisation needs to address the logistic issues, leading to increased supply costs which prevent them from meeting the quality standards within their budgets. This contributes to the complexity of medical supply chain management. However, medical supplies are not managed, which could lead to inadequate data reporting, poor standardisation of products, lack of automation in the process, and increasing requirements for regulation

A honeypot based network security system

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a honeypot based network security system (100) and a data processing method (200) thereof. In an aspect, the honeypot-based network security system (100) comprises of: an attacking terminal (102) which sends a source data to the honeypot (104), and a honeypot (104) for acquiring the source data sent by the attacking terminal and comprising of bogus data. The method (200) of data processing on a honeypot-based network security system method comprises of: acquiring (202) a plurality of transmission control protocol (TCP) type source data set that are sent by the attack terminal, simulating (204) a TCP protocol for constructing a TCP feedback data packet which meets the pre-set requirement, and sending (206) the TCP feedback data packet to the attack terminal

Modified design for toilet seat for urination and defecation

Self cleaning toilet*-According to several reports published in various news articles, more than 75% of women go through unitary tract infection (UTI) due to lack of hygiene maintained in the toilet, especially in a western commode. The design proposed here is a unique and novel design of a self-cleaning toilet where the seating area of the commode has a plurality of holes from which water can sink/sprinkle and doesn't stagnant on the seat. The stagnation of water is a major cause of these UTIs, which can sometimes be fatal to women's health

Scoping analysis of leveraging IoT with blockchain for monitoring and ensuring efficacy of vaccine cold chains

The recent pandemic has brought an unprecedented tangible effect on the adversaries of understanding the importance of Vaccines. Prior to this situation there were scenarios where the drip in Vaccine efficacy has affected the public health sector and even the Government's. Vaccination is the only assertive way of procuring immunization against such deadly pandemics. This study discusses such events which motivated the need of managing and monitoring the vaccine supply chain. The applications of IoT and Blockchain have been depicted and converged in this regard. Blockchain is the apparent solution to manage and monitor the vaccines effectiveness by delivering the same to the public health centers timely. Moreover, the counterfeit vaccines can also be identified. Internet of Things (IoT) has given a significant contribution in terms of fetching the real time readings in many applications. In our study temperature and moisture parameters are collected using Sensors in IoT and then the complete voyage of vaccine cold units will be monitored using Blockchain Transactions till it has been delivered. A framework is proposed on a Ethereum platform and consensus mechanism which will eventually avoid any possible alterations and counterfeiting of the deliverable Vaccine Units ensuring a safe transit which will be accessible and transparent even to the receiving patients, healthcare members along with the Governments body