title: SHARE roadmap 1: towards a debate.
abstract: We present the 'HealthGrid' initiative and review work carried out in various European projects. Since the European Commission's Information Society Technologies programme funded the first grid-based health and medical projects, the HealthGrid movement has flourished in Europe. Many projects have now been completed and 'Healthgrid' consulted a number of experts to compile and publish a 'White Paper' which establishes the foundations, potential scope and prospects of an approach to health informatics based on a grid infrastructure. The White Paper demonstrates the ways in which the healthgrid approach supports many modern trends in medicine and healthcare, such as evidence-based practice, integration across levels, from molecules and cells, through tissues and organs to the whole person and community, and the promise of individualized health care. A second generation of projects have now been funded, and the EC has commissioned a study to define a research roadmap for a 'healthgrid for Europe', seen as the preferred infrastructure for medical and health care projects in the European Research Area.
authors.affiliation: CCCS / CEMS Faculty / UWE, Bristol / Coldharbour Lane / Bristol BS16 1QY / UK.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Olive
authors.forename: Hanene
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rahmouni
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Solomonides
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Breton
authors.forename: Yannick
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Legré
authors.forename: Ignacio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Blanquer
authors.forename: Vicente
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hernandez
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Andoulsi
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Herveg
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D005060:Europe; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*