Global healthgrid : e-Science meets biomedical informatics : proceedings of Healthgrid 2008 / edited by Tony Solomonides [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Advancing virtual communities -- A Healthcare-driven framework for facilitation the secure sharing of data across organizational boundaries -- A Data model for integrating heterogeneous medical data in the Health-e-Child Project -- Gridifying phlogeny and medical applications on the volunteer computing platform -- HOPE, an open platform for medical data management on the grid -- NeuroLOG: a community-driven middleware design -- -- Public health informatics -- How grids are perceived in healthcare and the public service sectior -- From "low hanging" to "user ready": initial steps into a HealthGrid. -- Virtual objects in large scale health information systems -- Toward a virtual anonymisation grid for unified access to remote clinical data -- -- Translational bioinformatics -- A Highly optimized grid deployment: the metagenomic analysis example -- A Grid-based protein complex predictor -- Virtual high throughput screening (vHTS) on an optical high speed testbed -- A Protein structure prediction service in the ProGenGrid system -- BioNessie--a grid enabled biochemical networks simulation environment -- -- Knowledge management and decision support -- The @neurIST Project -- @neuLink: a service-oriented application for biomedical knowledge discovery -- @neurIST--chronic disease management through integration of heterogeneous data and computer-interpretable guideline services -- Data privacy considerations in intensive care grids -- Multi-science decision support of HIV drug resistance treatment -- -- Three 'Road maps' -- -- Integrated research team final report HealthGrid: grid technologies for Biomedicine(1-2 March 2006) -- A Roadmap for caGrid, an enterprise grid architecture for biomedical research -- The SHARE road map: healthgrids for biomedical research and healthcare.

Reflects the diversity of mature practice: Advancing Virtual Communities, that offers a glimpse of the kind of communities brought together by means of collaboration grids; Public Health Informatics, that explores the diffusion of grid concepts and technologies in health informatics; and, Translational Bioinformatics.

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