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Table A1

Respondent profile and semi-structured questionnaire

	Healthcare participants (HC-P)	Blockchain participants (BC-P)
Respondent role	What is your current position and title? Can you please explain your current role and responsibilities?
Managerial experience	How long have you been working in the current position? How long have you been in this line dealing with suppliers/vendors?
Organisation type	Can you please briefly describe your firm?
Interview questions	What procurement challenges have you faced in the healthcare sector? As your firm is reporting in response to the Australian Modern Slavery Act, what major challenges has your firm faced in identifying slavery risks? How do you, in general, evaluate and monitor your suppliers?	What sort of information should be integrated in the context of tracing modern slavery risks? What are the technical components that should be considered for a blockchain system architecture? What considerations should be made regarding scalability and data storage?
Interview questions	What are the considerations that would influence your decision to adopt blockchain? What do you think about the impacts/effects of implementing blockchain in areas of modern slavery risks? Are there any challenges you foresee/encounter in the implementation of technology in healthcare? As there are advancements in technology like AI, robotics in supply chains, can you share your brief understanding of blockchain? What is necessary among stakeholders to successfully implement blockchain in supply chains?

	Healthcare participants (HC-P)	Blockchain participants (BC-P)
Respondent role	What is your current position and title? Can you please explain your current role and responsibilities?
Managerial experience	How long have you been working in the current position? How long have you been in this line dealing with suppliers/vendors?
Organisation type	Can you please briefly describe your firm?
Interview questions	What procurement challenges have you faced in the healthcare sector? As your firm is reporting in response to the Australian Modern Slavery Act, what major challenges has your firm faced in identifying slavery risks? How do you, in general, evaluate and monitor your suppliers?	What sort of information should be integrated in the context of tracing modern slavery risks? What are the technical components that should be considered for a blockchain system architecture? What considerations should be made regarding scalability and data storage?
Interview questions	What are the considerations that would influence your decision to adopt blockchain? What do you think about the impacts/effects of implementing blockchain in areas of modern slavery risks? Are there any challenges you foresee/encounter in the implementation of technology in healthcare? As there are advancements in technology like AI, robotics in supply chains, can you share your brief understanding of blockchain? What is necessary among stakeholders to successfully implement blockchain in supply chains?

Source(s): Authors' work