The increasing volume of data describing human disease processes and the growing
complexity of understanding, managing, and sharing such data presents a huge challenge …

Service-oriented Grid technologies are increasingly utilized for the realization of future
biomedical IT infrastructures since they offer unprecedented opportunities for the integration …

The diagnostic and therapeutic processes, as well as the development of new treatments,
are hindered by the fragmentation of information which underlies them. In a multiinstitutional …

Secure access to patient data and analysis tools to run on that data will revolutionize the
treatment of a wide range of diseases, by using advanced simulation techniques to underpin …

Clinical Information Systems (CISs) play an outstanding role in integrated systems with
respect to their requirements in stability, accuracy, reliability, performance, and security …

Objectives: To develop a security infrastructure to support controlled and secure access to
data and analytical resources in a biomedical research Grid environment, while facilitating …

Through support from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Research
Resources, the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) is pioneering the use of …

The clinical sciences have arguably the most stringent security demands on the adoption
and roll-out of collaborative e-Infrastructure solutions such as those based upon Grid-based …

Objectives: The goal of this paper is to identify how Grid technology can be applied for the
development and deployment of integration systems, bringing together distributed and …

Medical data represent tremendous amount of data for which automatic analysis is
increasingly needed. Grids are very promising to face today challenging health issues such …