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 platform that supports local and international health and biomedical research.
BioGrid specialises in linkage and curation of hospital-based and managed clinical treatment outcomes, genomic, biospecimen, imaging and patient administration system data.

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.
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.

BioGrid enables Principal Investigators, researchers and clinicians to link, join, manipulate and display, ethically gathered data in a way that has never been possible before.

Working with BioGrid enables collaborating institutions to leverage BioGrid’s national data governance and connectivity platform, resulting in IT and administrative cost savings.

More and more pharmaceutical companies are accessing BioGrid data for real-world patient research and faster TGA approval processing.