The Framework for Blockchain Innovation and the Impact on Digital Economic Transformation

Blockchain technology has become an epidemic and significant decision that organizations may make in the next few years, as integrated business solution enabling institutions to integrate business functions, operations, and processes in a decentralized distributed ledger technology. This technology will transform the business world and economy in solving the limitations created by centralization and system inefficiency. Accordingly, with the highly demanding and complexity of growing economies such as Gulf Cooperation Council GCC countries, the need for a typical solution technology is a game changer. The result of this will lead GCC to a solid base of the economy. Blockchain technology can be applicable in many different fields such as: banking, education, health care, finance, government, trade, etc. This article will propose a conceptual framework for the acceptance of Blockchain technology and innovation in the GCC, particularly in Saudi Arabia. Also, more research can be conducted in the future as the system might be integrated in these countries.

A Design Space for Legal and Systems Capability: Interfaces for Self-Help in Complex Systems

This article proposes a design space for designers and researchers working on the challenge of building people's capability to navigate complex systems, like the legal one. This capability is necessary for people whose rights, quality of life, and wellbeing necessitate them navigating bureaucratic systems. This design space aims to empower people to understand the system they are operating in, diagnose what paths are open to them, choose among the available paths, and then navigate the chosen path to resolution. We developed this design spaceincluding patterns, strategies, and framesthrough a series of exploratory design workshops, a cross-disciplinary literature review, and refinement with designers working in the domains of legal, health care, finance, insurance, and government services.

Diagnosis of the socio-economic potential of health insurance

This study investigates the features of the development of the discriminant model of diagnostics of the socio-economic potential of health insurance, and the trends in the medical insurance system development in Ukraine. This study uses logistic, statistical and normative methods to assess of the socio-economic potential of health insurance in Ukraine from 2010 to 2017. The empirical result shows that the block assessment of the financial potential of health insurance gives the complete information on the dynamics of individual indicators and trends of the branch. The need for assessment of the socio-economic potential of health insurance in order to improve the efficiency of the public financial management of the health care finance system and the insurance market regulation has been justified.

Statement of the Problem

This chapter provides a narrative of the complex origins of the American Exceptionalism in health care and the main impediments to the realization of health care as a social right afforded to all Americans. As the chapter discusses, at the heart of American Exceptionalism in health care is “The Great Unsustainable Compromise”, that is, a fragmented mixed-public and private system of health care finance and delivery that has been built around a subsidized employment-based insurance system with selective entitlements to health care for the poor and aged. After tracing the development of the Great Unsustainable Compromise from the demise of the Truman Plan in the late 1940's at the behest of the American Medical Association through the enactment of the Medicare and Medicaid entitlements in 1965, the chapter explains the seeds of its demise and its gradually unraveling over the final decades of the 20th century. In its concluding section, the chapter advances the arguments for the inevitability of the evolvement of the health care system to a publicly financed universal entitlement to comprehensive health care as a social right of citizenship.