HA and HKSTP work together for R&D platform

Hospital Authority (HA) shares data for scientific research in Science Park.

A data platform will be set up in Hong Kong Science Park (HKSP) to augment science research and development.

In a statement, HA said will share its anonymised data in the hopes of promoting healthcare technology and improving healthcare quality for patients in Hong Kong.

Under the agreement, qualified science research firms in HKSP can access HA’s data platform remotely. This includes anonymised data of around 200,000 patients randomly selected from the HA database. 

The data contains patients' demographic characteristics, attendance records to hospitals or clinics, clinical diagnosis, procedures, medication and examination results, and so on.

HA also assured the public that they will protect patient data and privacy. 

“Information that could identify patients has been deleted from the data available for access,” read the statement.

This isn’t the first time that HA shared its data with HKSTP. It has been providing healthcare data to local universities for scientific research. To date, it provided data support for more than 60 scientific research projects. It added that this collaboration showed satisfactory results.