Twenty-five years after its first public repository was established, the PhysioNet resource for biomedical and clinical data has enabled tens of thousands of research papers. Further efforts are ongoing to advance secure data sharing, community engagement and scalable research infrastructure.
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We dedicate this paper to G. Moody, the founder and creator of the original PhysioNet platform. PhysioNet has been supported over the years by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and the NIH Office of the Director (OD). Current funding comes from NIBIB, NHLBI and the OD under grant numbers U24EB037545 and R01EB030362. We gratefully acknowledge cloud computing resources provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud, and the Boston-Korea Innovative Research Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (RS-2024-00403047).
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Pollard, T., Moody, B.E., Lehman, Lw.H. et al. PhysioNet as a global platform for biomedical research. Nat. Health (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44360-026-00096-z
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