Workshop on Challenges for the Applications of Grids in Healthcare (Shanghai, China)

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Link: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~silvia/CCGrid-Health/index.html

Dear Colleague,

Please notice that the Call for Papers for the Workshop "Challenges forthe application of Grids in Healthcare" is now open:

http://www.science.uva.nl/~silvia/CCGrid-Health/

This workshop is organized in conjunction with the CCGrid conference, in Shangai, China, May 2009, reserving room for discussion about thechallenges for the construction and deployment of grids in Healthcare inthis prestigious conference. During the workshop, application developersand computer scientists will have the opportunity to interact, reducingthe gap between these communities.

The workshop has the goals of obtaining an overview of on-going effortsin health-related grid applications; obtaining an overview of issues(technologies, achievements, gaps, roadblocks); and disseminatinghealthgrid requirements in the grid research community.Contributions towards any of these goals are welcome to this workshop,and will be published in the CCGrid proceedings.

The deadline for submissions is December 23.

We look forward to your contribution!

Tony Solomonides, Tristan Glatard and Silvia Olabarriaga
Organizers CCGrid-Health


Topics

Grid technology offers rapid computation, large scale data storage and flexible collaboration by harnessing together the power of a large number of desktop machines or clusters. Grids were devised for use in scientific fields, such as particle physics and bioinformatics, but they are also applicable in other areas, for example in biomedical research and in the delivery of healthcare. Specialised grid technologies for bio-health informatics are called healthgrids. Several projects are exploring the potential of healthgrids in a large variety of scenarios, for example simulation for surgery planning, radiology, human genetics, epidemiology, and disease monitoring. The benefits of grids start to become visible through the construction of demonstrators, however scaling from a prototyping environment to deployment in realistic scenarios has been slow due to an enormous amount of challenges of technical and non-technical nature. Overcoming the technical obstacles and improving the quality of existing applications will require research in the field of Computer Science addressing the specific requirements of healthgrids.

This workshop aims at reserving room for discussion about the challenges for the construction and deployment of grids in Healthcare within CCGrid, offering a contact opportunity between healthgrid application developers and contributing to reduce the gap between the two communities. The workshop has the goals of obtaining an overview of on-going efforts in health-related grid applications; obtaining an overview of issues (technologies, achievements, gaps, roadblocks); and disseminating healthgrid requirements in the grid research community.
Contributions towards any of these goals are welcome to this workshop, and papers that go through the reviewing process will be published in the CCGrid proceedings.

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