The biomedical blockchain database
A structured directory of biomedical blockchain project categories, industry focus areas, confidence levels, and use case mappings.
What the database actually tracks
The database is not a leaderboard. It does not rank projects, score teams, or imply that a high-profile entry is more credible than a quieter one. Instead, it sorts the field by what each project is genuinely trying to do, which industry focus it sits inside, and how much of its public material can be confirmed from primary sources rather than press coverage.
The visible host for the directory itself is db.biomedicalblockchain.org. That separation is intentional. The root site hosts the research, glossary, and methodology, while the directory keeps its own URL space so individual views can be linked precisely.
Industry focus taxonomy
Each project is filed under a single primary industry focus. A project working on clinician credentialing is not the same animal as one working on clinical trial data integrity, and grouping them together would be misleading. The taxonomy is reviewed when a category starts to attract very different kinds of work.
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Claims and payment workflows
Adjudication, prior authorisation, provider settlement, and audit trails that need verifiable timing and counterparties.
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Clinical trials
Protocol versioning, consent capture, eCRF integrity, and chain-of-custody for trial events.
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Consent and access management
Patient-driven authorisation flows, granular access scopes, and revocation audit logs.
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Data audit and compliance infrastructure
Tamper-evident logs, internal compliance reporting, and reproducible audit packages.
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Electronic health records
EHR access logs, cross-institution exchange pointers, and provenance metadata rather than raw clinical records on chain.
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Genomic data
Consent-bound access to sequencing data, research participation tracking, and incentive design without raw genomes on chain.
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Patient data marketplaces
Models for compensating patients or research participants while protecting identifiability and downstream use.
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Patient identity
Decentralised identifiers, verifiable credentials, and identity proofing aligned to clinical workflows.
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Provider credentialing
Verifiable clinician credentials, licensure status, and continuing education records.
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Public health registries
Notifiable disease reporting, vaccination records, and registry interoperability.
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Research data provenance
Reproducibility, instrument output hashing, and protocol-aligned data lineage.
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Healthcare supply chain
Track-and-trace for pharmaceuticals, devices, and reagents across multi-party logistics.
How records are built
A record starts as a category-level entry. It is only promoted to a named project profile once the basic facts can be confirmed from material the project itself controls or from non-promotional public sources. That deliberately slow approach means the directory will sometimes lag the news cycle, which is the trade-off for not catalogue-stuffing.
The full process is in the methodology page. The supporting research notes give context on what each focus area actually involves at the technical level.
Where to start
If you came in looking for a sorted view, the companies list defaults to alphabetical ordering by industry focus. The focus taxonomy gives the same information arranged around the categories themselves. The submit page covers what information is useful when a project would like to be reviewed or have an existing entry corrected.