Missions

To enhance...

• The first mission for HealthGrid is to improve the biomedical research and healthcare services delivery. Different ways are taken to reach this goal:
• influence Grid technologies and related advanced informatics innovations;
• find out particular ways to apply HealthGrid technologies and by this way always improve the healthcare results;
• make always more possible the exchange of information and to improve open access.

To create...

The second mission for HealthGrid is to create an open collaborative virtual Community. This Community shall be composed of people coming from different backgrounds (like researchers or physicians) but also all the people interested in the HealthGrid enhancing, that means to say healthcare professionals, supporters, sponsors, academic, commercial and government organisation.

This collaborative work shall be made of universal benefit and same vision. All this collaborative work shall also include other organisations sharing the same vision or working in the same way.

To communicate...

The third main mission, also considered as objective is to communicate the collective knowledge of the HealthGrid community.

• This mission is more professionaly oriented and is underlying the fact that people involved in the initiative are as important as the IT development. Therefore, this mission include:
• the coordination of professionals meetings, workshops and publications;
• the tests and validation of HealthGrid standards, applications and implementations;
• to make recomendations to government and professionals forums on health architecture.

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