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>When contacted not a single hospital in Australia knew of Surgisphere or the study, and none of them had any commercial relationship with Surgisphere. To be f
by giarc 6y ago
>When contacted not a single hospital in Australia knew of Surgisphere or the study, and none of them had any commercial relationship with Surgisphere.
To be fair, I wouldn't expect any individual hospital (or individual at the hospital) to be aware of this. Australia has public healthcare and therefore data is stored centrally. There's likely a government department dedicated to data and they would likely be the ones to provide the data, not someone at the hospital.
- pen2l 6y agoSomeone at the hospital in US would certainly be aware of it for two reasons: 1) It takes a significant amount of work to format and standardize this data 2) Sharing this data is a business model for hospitals, it's a means of income for hospitals in this day and age. It's not unheard of that a pharma company will pay up double-digit million dollars for this data. It is thus unlikely that top brass for a hospital network is ignorant of the nature of this data and with whom it is being shared.
- baylisscg 6y agoNo, it's not centrally collected. There is a national eHealth system, MyHealthRecord, but it's opt in for patients, supplementary to your provider's records, and various pieces of privacy legislation at the state and national level make handing out this data, at best, legally fraught. Speaking from experience. Getting data out of a hospital is phenomenally hard even when the hospital is wants to provide it. Patient confidentiality is a thing they all take very seriously.