The PopMedNet™ software application enables simple creation, operation, and governance of distributed health data networks. It facilitates distributed analyses of electronic health data to support medical product safety, comparative effectiveness, quality, medical resource use, cost-effectiveness, and related studies.

• Provides secure, customized, private portals, and file transfer capabilities that allow users to query data held by disparate partners
  
  
• Allows participating partners to maintain physical and operational control over their data
  
  
• Supports both menu-driven analyses and distribution of complex analytic  programs
  
  
• Accommodates any network size, from single datasets held by two organizations to multi-year projects encompassing dozens of organizations and multiple projects
  
  
• Accommodates any data model
  
  
• PopMedNet allows users to send questions to the data