Zuellig Pharma’s eZTracker platform is now using the SAP blockchain to track and authenticate COVID-19 vaccinations. The Singaporean healthcare services provider Zuellig Pharma is now using a blockchain network to track these vaccinations to prevent practitioners from administering expired vaccines.
Zuellig Pharma says that the new “eZTracker” management system can help in preventing improperly stored or counterfeit vaccines from being utilized by enabling its users to instantly verify the provenance and authenticity of their vaccines through a mobile application.
The vice-president and head of digital and data solutions at Zuellig Pharma, Daniel Laverick, said:
“Accidents involving expired or improperly stored vaccines can be avoided.”
Notably, eZTracker uses the SAP blockchain to track, capture, and trace many data points to enhance supply chain transparency. The eZTracker site explains how it functions:
“Simply scan the QR code on the packaging to instantly verify if your product comes from an authorized distributor.”
Laverick added:
“Patients can scan the 2D data matrix on the product packaging to verify key product information like expiry date, temperature, and provenance through its app powered by blockchain.”
SAP Blockchain Resolves Some Authenticity Issues
The SAP Blockchain executes operations as a Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS), enabling its customers to develop exclusive blockchain extensions for their existing applications. Based on data from SAP, 77% of the world’s transaction revenue touches on one of their systems.
In 2020, Zuellig partnered with pharmaceutical firm MSD to deploy eQTracker in Hong Kong, where it was used to track vaccines for the Human Papilloma Virus, Gardasil.
Buy Bitcoin NowLaverick commented at the time:
“As the vaccines move through various handover points in the supply chain, the products’ data points are loaded into eZTracker’s secure blockchain ledger, and this ensures it can’t be tampered with. Users such as healthcare professionals and patients can verify the authenticity of the vaccine by scanning a unique data matrix code on the product pack.”
Launched 100 years ago, Zuellig is one of the biggest healthcare service provider organizations in Asia. It also has a product known as eZVax that mostly offers governments, local health authorities, and the private space with end-to-end vaccine management.
Southern Asia is a hotbed of fake medicines with $520 million and $2.6 billion spent on fake medicines each year, based on a report compiled and published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
