A human grid initiative.
Purposes
HealthGrid association wants to give the opportunities to partners to exchange ideas, discuss about technologies, solutions and requirements for fostering the integration of grids into health and giving more interest in life-science communities.
"HealthGrid" is a young association that has always worked to develop the HealthGrid initiative, and which is participating to the evolution of a computing network that analyses already existing databases from all around the world. It gathers information from scientists and researchers and involves this information into the biomedical research area.
- Its main objectives are:
- to contribute to several European projects, which objectives are to fight serious diseases such as cancers (breast cancers, nephroblastoma) or to create a wide world Grid infrastructure especially thought for researchers.
- to supply highly important information and other services relevant to the members of the association
- participates to higher education giving special training in Grid knowledge
- to give a new dialog status and exchange between European and international projects,
- to stimulate the emergence of new projects
- to produce collaborated documents
- to organise conferences and healthgrids´ workshops
- to create partnerships in the field of health within Europe and in the rest of the world
- to collaborate to humanitarian projects (contributes with local associations in Burkina-Faso)
Here are also the main topics that healthgrid's has been working on:
- the compelling business cases solved by
- increasing the understanding of the impact of medical errors on patient safety and the resulting cost of care
- demanding for healthcare outstripping resources at all levels because of fact that people tend to live longer thanks to the nowadays technologies involving tests, surgical interventions, and medications.
- medical image processing,
- The main objective is to assist the clinicians in facing the amount of data by providing reliable and reproducible assistance to diagnosis and therapy.
- computational models of the human body for therapy planning and computer assisted interventions,
Face to the cost of most human body models, Grid technologies are a good candidate to handle arising computation challenges.