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New Membership year commences 1 July 2025
June 29, 2025
Reminder: The new year for BioGrid Australia membership commences on 1 July 2025.
Members enjoy a range of benefits including:
- Access to the unique evergreen collaboration agreement with over 40 institutions covering the management of governance, data access, undertaking projects, publications, intellectual property and commercialisation amongst the collaborators;
- Access to the unique human research ethics framework for BioGrid’s national data linkage platform, covering systems, methodologies and processes for data linkage, governance, privacy, security and project-specific access in every Australian state and the ACT.
And much more! Membership in BioGrid Australia makes it easy to access de-identified patient records and data, as well as Australian Institute of Health and Welfare National Death Index data.
Members also receive complimentary access to SAS Enterprise Guide, a point-and-click, menu and wizard-driven tool that empower users to analyse data and publish results, or, for visualisation, SAS Visual Analytics, enabling the exploration of all relevant data quickly and easily via self-service, ad hoc visual data discovery and exploration.
Members enjoy a discounted rate for provision of BioGrid services such as:
Data Collection Software Design and Development
- Designing/modifying a clinical dataset.
- Developing software to prospectively collect clinical data.
Database Ingestion, Connectivity and Linkage
- Managing ethics to connect a database to the BioGrid national data linkage platform.
- Conducting technical work to ingest, connect and link databases to BioGrid at member or collaborator sites such as hospitals, research institutes or universities.
Data Analysis, Auditing and Reporting
- Data Analyst assistance with data exploration, data quality (audit) review, data analysis and/or tailored reports.