ADI Foundation and Apeiro Introduce Blockchain Audit Layer for Healthcare Claims
The ADI Foundation and Apeiro have completed the first phase of a blockchain-based audit layer designed to strengthen healthcare claims verification without storing sensitive patient data on-chain.
Announced during the World Health Expo, the initiative positions ADI Foundation and Apeiro at the intersection of sovereign digital infrastructure and public-sector healthcare modernization. Rather than replacing existing e-claim systems, the framework introduces a cryptographic verification layer aimed at improving accountability across insurers, healthcare providers, and regulators.
Healthcare data governance has long been one of the most complex challenges in digital transformation. While blockchain has frequently been proposed as a solution for managing medical records, strict privacy frameworks, regulatory oversight, and data localization requirements have historically limited its practical deployment in healthcare systems.
The ADI Foundation–Apeiro model reflects a more pragmatic evolution. Instead of moving patient data onto a distributed network, the framework separates operational data from verification infrastructure.
Anchoring Claims Without Storing Medical Data
Under the framework, existing electronic claims portals remain unchanged and continue operating as the system of record. Each claim and every key lifecycle event — including submission, review, approval, and settlement — is converted into a cryptographic hash, or digital fingerprint.
These hashes are time-stamped and anchored on ADI Chain, creating a tamper-evident audit trail. No patient or medical data is stored on-chain. Only hashes, timestamps, and minimal metadata are recorded.
If a claim were altered after submission, its digital fingerprint would no longer match the anchored record. In this structure, blockchain functions as a system of proof rather than a repository of healthcare information, reinforcing audit integrity while remaining privacy- and compliance-aligned.
By limiting on-chain data to cryptographic fingerprints, the model avoids the governance and sovereignty friction that has challenged earlier blockchain healthcare initiatives, while still introducing immutability and independent verification capabilities.
According to information shared alongside the announcement, ADI Chain demonstrated throughput capacity of up to 15,000 transactions per second during stress testing. Transaction pricing can be defined at the institutional level, including zero-fee configurations for public-sector deployments, enabling predictable cost structures in government environments.
Validator participation is structured around institutional entities within the ecosystem, aligning governance with enterprise accountability while maintaining public verifiability.
Strengthening Oversight in Healthcare Claims Systems
Across many healthcare systems, electronic claims processes can be difficult to audit end-to-end in real time. Fraud, duplicate submissions, and post-settlement modifications can place financial pressure on insurers and regulators, particularly in large national programs.
The ADI Foundation and Apeiro framework does not claim to eliminate fraud at its origin. Instead, it strengthens detection and verification by ensuring that each claim event carries a permanent and independently verifiable timestamped record.
Guillaume de la Tour, Council Member of the ADI Foundation, said: “At the ADI Foundation, we measure innovation by outcomes: when governments and healthcare institutions can verify claims with greater confidence, disputes reduce, audits become faster, and resources can be directed where they are needed most. This is how we make healthcare more accessible, more trusted, and more efficient for the many, not the few, this is how we help change lives and revolutionize economies.”
Osama Malki, Chief Business Officer of Apeiro, added: “Through this partnership, we are pioneering the digital transformation of health ecosystems. By helping governments and insurers digitize policies, claims, and patient management, we can expand access while improving efficiency. Ultimately, secure data interoperability, blockchain recordkeeping, and telehealth integration bring us closer to universal health coverage at scale.”
Expanding Blockchain’s Institutional Use Cases
While the ADI Foundation has previously highlighted digital asset and stablecoin initiatives, this deployment signals a broader infrastructure strategy for ADI Chain beyond financial markets.
By applying blockchain as an audit and verification layer rather than as a data storage mechanism, the initiative reflects a more measured path for blockchain adoption in highly regulated sectors.
The first phase validated core workflows on ADI Chain’s testnet environment. The next stage will focus on integration within real-world healthcare insurance systems across priority markets in the Middle East and Africa.
As governments continue modernizing digital infrastructure, the use of blockchain as an integrity backbone — rather than a medical data repository — may offer a more sustainable model for sensitive sectors such as healthcare.
Whether this proof-layer approach becomes a template for broader public-sector adoption will ultimately depend on live deployments and institutional uptake in the months ahead.
