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Over the last four years, a community of researchers working on Grid and High Performance Computing technologies started discussing the barriers and opportunities that grid technologies must face and exploit for the development of health-related applications. This interest lead to the first Healthgrid conference, held in Lyon, France, on January 16th-17th, 2003, with the focus of creating increased awareness about the possibilities and advantages linked to the deployment of grid technologies in health, ultimately targeting the creation of a European/international grid infrastructure for health. The topics of this conference converged with the position of the eHealth division of the European Commission, whose mandate from the Lisbon Meeting was "To develop an intelligent environment that enables ubiquitous management of citizens' health status, and to assist health professionals in coping with some major challenges, risk management and the integration into clinical practice of advances in health knowledge." In this context "Health" involves not only clinical procedures but covers the whole range of information from molecular level (genetic and proteomic information) over cells and tissues, to the individual and finally the population level (social healthcare). Grid technology offers the opportunity to create a common working backbone for all different members of this large "health family" and will hopefully lead to an increased awareness and interoperability among disciplines. The first HealthGrid conference led to the creation of the Healthgrid association, a non-profit research association legally incorporated in France but formed from the broad community of European researchers and institutions sharing expertise in health grids. After the second Healthgrid conference, held in Clermont-Ferrand on January 29th-30th, 2004, the need for a "white paper" on the current status and prospective of health grids was raised. Over fifty experts from different areas of grid technologies, eHealth applications and the medical world were invited to contribute to the preparation of this document.
在过去四年里，一个致力于网格和高性能计算技术的研究团体开始探讨网格技术在健康相关应用开发中必须面对和利用的障碍与机遇。这种兴趣促成了2003年1月16日至17日在法国里昂举行的首届健康网格会议，其重点是提高人们对在健康领域部署网格技术的可能性和优势的认识，最终目标是创建一个欧洲/国际健康网格基础设施。本次会议的主题与欧盟委员会电子健康部门的立场相契合，该部门在里斯本会议上的任务是“开发一个智能环境，实现对公民健康状况的普遍管理，并协助医疗专业人员应对一些重大挑战、风险管理以及将健康知识的进展融入临床实践”。在此背景下，“健康”不仅涉及临床程序，还涵盖从分子层面（遗传和蛋白质组学信息）、细胞和组织、个体直至人群层面（社会医疗保健）的所有信息。网格技术为这个庞大的“健康大家庭”的所有不同成员提供了创建共同工作支柱的机会，并有望提高各学科之间的认识和互操作性。首届健康网格会议促成了健康网格协会的成立，这是一个在法国合法注册的非营利性研究协会，由欧洲研究人员和机构的广泛群体组成，他们在健康网格方面共享专业知识。在2004年1月29日至30日于克莱蒙费朗举行的第二届健康网格会议之后，人们提出了撰写一份关于健康网格现状与前景的“白皮书”的需求。来自网格技术、电子健康应用和医疗领域不同方面的五十多位专家受邀为编写这份文件做出贡献。
