Part I highlights the inadequacies and inefficiencies of our Medicare payment system, focusing on the initiatives currently in place and the susceptibilities that persist. Part II offers a broad overview of the development, importance, features, and collateral technologies surrounding...

Blockchains are an institutional technology for facilitating decentralised exchange. As open-source software, anybody can develop their own blockchain, ‘fork’ an existing blockchain, or stack a new blockchain on top of an existing one - creating a new environment for exchange with its own...

Blockchain has been hailed as the most disruptive technology of the next decade. One of the areas of immediate application is healthcare, where different types of blockchain applications could help streamline data sharing, protect patient privacy, and assist in the monitoring of drug shipments....

Global supply chains are critical to the efficient functioning of the international trading system. Yet many supply chains suffer from inefficiencies and vulnerabilities. Blockchain is being heralded as a potential game-changing technology that could address these problems to make supply chains...

Blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger that challenges existing business models and theories by shifting the trust from institutions towards algorithms. However, the number of successfully developed blockchain-based systems remains low. This points towards a research gap between blockchain...

Will blockchain technology revolutionize the economy, or is it mostly hype? Blockchain is a decentralized protocol for creating and running distributed ledgers that makes it possible to track assets, from land to music to intellectual property to tomatoes to bitcoins, cryptographically without a...

The paper deals with the use of the blockchain technology in the capital markets from a comparative legal angle. Both the Swiss and the EU legal systems have been analysed with a special focus on banking, securities and AML law. The paper goes beyond a simple analysis of the use of Bitcoin and...

Purpose: This paper develops the idea of comprehensive contractual solutions using the blockchain as a foundation. A comprehensive contractual solution is a template for engaging in all manner of complex contractual relationships while remaining tethered to the same underlying...