There are some really goofy laws about moving medical data around. My lab is involved in a couple of large projects that involve researchers at other hospitals,

There are some really goofy laws about moving medical data around. My lab is involved in a couple of large projects that involve researchers at other hospitals, and we're not allowed by law to send the data from these grants directly to our partners. Instead, we push things up to a google bucket, and then the other hospitals pull down from that bucket. I have no idea why that's the way things are done, but it's true for more than one of our grants, so there's obviously some sort of systemic thing going on with it.