SHARE

A major challenge for the coming years is to address the unique ICT aspects of the life sciences in an integrated way. Life science research present the need to access, analyse, protect and share massive quantities of diverse, geographically distributed information, computationally intensive analysis techniques and rapidly evolving medicine, science and technology.

The recent emergence of Grid technology opens new perspectives to enable interdisciplinary research and technology development at the cross roads of medical informatics, bioinformatics and system biology impacting healthcare.

Action on Grids for health is needed at EU level to address mobility of citizens and provide cross frontier interoperability of data, cross-frontier infrastructures, optimal exploitation of resources (both technical and medical), equitable distribution of healthcare; and definition and implementation of standards.

Such deployment requires harmonization of existing legal frameworks for storing, accessing, communicating, and processing health related data in Europe.

SHARE will achieve the following goals:

• To propose strategies to address some of the issues listed in the European Action Plan for e- Health.
• To define a roadmap for research and technology to allow a wide deployment and adoption of HealthGrids both in the shorter term (3-5 years) and in the longer term (up to 10 years).
• To define a complementary and integrated roadmap for e-Health RTD policy relating to Grid deployment, as a basis for improving coordination amongst funding bodies, health policy makers and leaders of Grid initiatives, avoiding legislative barriers etc.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.eu-share.org

Project co-ordinator:
CNRS

Partners:

• CNRS (FR)
• HealthGrid (FR)
• Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (ES)
• University of the West of England, Bristol (UK)
• Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (BE)
• European Health Management Association (IL)

Timetable: from 01/06 – to 03/08

Total cost: € 1.026.000

EC funding: € 980.000

Instrument: SSA

Project Identifier: IST-2004-27694

Source: FP6 eHealth Portfolio of Projects