RxChain

RxChain DashBoard

Inspiration

As a trained pharmacist and also a software developer, I have always wanted to solve problems in the healthcare sector. I was inspired by my experience in the pharmaceutical sector. Here in Nigeria, many people imitate existing drugs/cosmetics/foods and make it look like the original one. This has posed serious health risks to unsuspecting consumers.

What it does

Rxchain helps pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food companies to protect their products by issuing a verifiable credential for each batch of products. This can be verified by the end users. With this technology, end users can be assured of the source of the products they are taking.

How I built it

Rxchain was built using Flutter, Affinidi API and Firebase. Flutter is a dart framework for building rapid mobile and progressive web apps. Affinidi API was used to provide the block chain functionality, while firebase was used to host the app in the cloud.

Challenges I ran into

Before this hackathon, I haven't built an app whose functionality relies solely on REST API. When I started the project, I was a bit skeptical if I could complete it, but this challenged me to learn how to use REST API to build SDK for flutter and other programming languages.