The vision

The initiative long term vision is to gather all The Community composed of researchers, physicians and industries who want to apply the grid technology into biomedical research and healthcare.

This idea of bringing together specialists in the healthcare sector and scientists started in 2002 after a meeting organised by the European Commission regarding the enhancement of new technologies use in the healthcare sector. There were indeed at the time a great interest in the development of grid technologies and in the development of computing tools of tomorrow. To face this reality, the European Commission decided to organise a meeting for finding the means and the people ready to be involved in this initiative.

HealthGrid is overall a human adventure wanting to favour the development and deployment of grid technologies for healthcare and biomedical research. As the HealthGrid initiative is to use all the benefits of IT and e-health, the goal is to create a single Healthgrid, which shall be oriented to individualised healthcare as well as to epidemiology analysis.