Publicly listed health informatics firm Alcidion Group is behind the development of new data acquisition technology that is being used to extract data from echocardiogram studies and amalgamate it into a centralised, cloud-hosted database server for echocardiography research.

The National Echocardiography Database of Australia (NEDA) study is being led by David Playford, professor of cardiology at Perth's Mount Hospital and the University of Notre Dame, and Geoff Strange, an associate professor at Notre Dame and CEO of the Pulmonary Hypertension Society Australia and New Zealand.