How does BioGrid work?

BioGrid Australia Ltd is a not-for-profit service provider established and owned by the health and medical research community, for the health and medical research community, to provide a vitally important national data sharing platform that supports local and international health and biomedical research.

BioGrid specialises in real-time linkage and curation of hospital-based and managed clinical treatment outcomes, genomic, biospecimen, imaging and patient administration system data.

BioGrid’s members are health services, universities and research institutes that utilise this trusted virtual real-time data-sharing platform to conduct collaborative multi-site research.

One of the key benefits of BioGrid’s service is the secure coding of patient data, ensuring that no identifying information is supplied to researchers using the data. BioGrid is the only collaboration network in Australia with the legal and ethical framework to enable the sharing of real-time health and medical data for research.

In addition, BioGrid’s unique governance framework ensures medical research is accelerated through the provision of enduring, curated clinical data linkages.