Nagykaldi Zsolt, Fox Chester, Gallo Steve, Stone Joseph, Fontaine Patricia, Peterson Kevin, Arvanitis Theodoros
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA.
Inform Prim Care. 2008;16(1):51-8; discussion 59-60. doi: 10.14236/jhi.v16i1.674.
Access Grid (AG) is an Internet2-driven, high performance audio-visual conferencing technology used worldwide by academic and government organisations to enhance communication, human interaction and group collaboration. AG technology is particularly promising for improving academic multi-centre research collaborations. This manuscript describes how the AG technology was utilised by the electronic Primary Care Research Network (ePCRN) that is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap initiative to improve primary care research and collaboration among practice-based research networks (PBRNs) in the USA. It discusses the design, installation and use of AG implementations, potential future applications, barriers to adoption, and suggested solutions.
访问网格(AG)是一种由Internet2推动的高性能视听会议技术,被全球的学术和政府组织用于加强沟通、人际互动和团队协作。AG技术在改善学术多中心研究合作方面尤其具有前景。本文描述了美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)路线图计划的一部分——电子初级保健研究网络(ePCRN)如何利用AG技术来改善美国基于实践的研究网络(PBRN)之间的初级保健研究与合作。它讨论了AG实施的设计、安装和使用、潜在的未来应用、采用的障碍以及建议的解决方案。