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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.
The workshop will take place in the morning of May 18, 2009, in Shanghai.
The presented papers will appear in the CCGrid'2009 proceedings.
A special section about the workshop will appear in the journal Future Generation of Computer Systems
