The initiative

The HealthGrid initiative, supported by the HealthGrid association, was created to bring a long term continuity, to reinforce and to promote awareness of the possibilities and advantages linked to the deployment of Grid technologies in health at the planet level.

The initiative has to be distinguished from the association. The association works indeed for the initiative and the projects in which the association is involved make the initiative grow.

However, to use new technologies of information in order to give back to the patients a less expensive, a faster and more efficient individualised healthcare is anyway HealthGrid's main goal.