Biogrid Australia LTD

biogrid is a not-for-profit organisation that was established by health clinicians to develop a real-time data linkage platform which is federated and proven to work across multiple health organisations, jurisdictions and disease settings where privacy and security of the databases and intellectual property of the data owners is ethically protected. the biogrid it platform federates the databases (which are stored, maintained and controlled by the host/member site), creating a virtual repository which can be linked with other databases such as publicly available research and genetic profiling data. the federated biogrid system enables authorised users to securely access records of thousands of patients (where data is record-linked across multiple databases, organisations and sites), whilst protecting both privacy and intellectual property rights. this is the vision to establish a connection for all life sciences and the australian cancer grid is the flagship. biogrid is a ‘federation’