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SHARE: A European Healthgrid Roadmap
Mark Olive (University of the West of England, UK), Hanene Boussi Rahmouni (University of the West of England, UK), Tony Solomonides (University of the West of England, UK), Vincent Breton (CNRS Clermont-Ferrand, France), Nicolas Jacq (HealthGrid, International), Yannick Legre (HealthGrid and CNRS Clerm, France), Ignacio Blanquer (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain), Vicente Hernandez (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain), Isabelle Andoulsi (Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgium), Jean Herveg (Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgium), Celine Van Doosselaere (European Health Management Association, International), Petra Wilson (European Health Management Association, International), Alexander Dobrev (Empirica GmbH, Germany), Karl Stroetmann (Empirica GmbH, Germany), and Veli Stroetmann (Empirica GmbH, Germany)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 29
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-374-6.ch001
Abstract
The principal goal of this chapter is to elucidate the future requirements of healthgrids if they are to become the infrastructure of choice for biomedical research and healthcare. These require ments take many forms, technical, organizational and economic, with initiatives required in the domains of ethical and legal regulation. Thus, particular objectives of the chapter are to explore and analyse each of these domains to a sufficient depth to be able to make sense of the overall picture.