Date

Thursday 14 February 2008 afternoon (14H30 - 18H00).

Place

The workshop will be held at Polydome.

General information

Following the successful first session given at the EGEE Conference 2007 in Budapest, we propose a follow-up workshop entitled "Users' Requirements, Data Integration and Archiving in Healthgrids: A comparison of European experiences", to take place at the EGEE User Forum in Clermont Ferrand, 11th to 14th February 2008. The workshop is proposed and will be organized by the European FP6 SHARE project in conjunction with HealthGrid, the European association for healthgrid computing, the European FP6 Health-e-Child project and Maat GKnowledge. It will include presentations from leading experts in the field and will aim to trigger discussions in Europe toward the convergence and identification of sustainable means to crystallize research results and improve their successful dissemination/adoption in Industry and up-coming projects for supporting the i2010 strategy. The aim of the workshop is to give an opportunity to all stakeholders to review the status of various International initiatives addressing the development and deployment of healthgrid applications for medical research and health care. More particularly, participants will be able to compare their respective approaches for addressing challenges such as the medical data integration and use in healthgrids. The workshop will include:

• A keynote presentation on the two principal themes of the workshop.
• Position statements by project representatives.
• An expert panel and debate on the future of healthgrid data integration, archiving and curation.

Among the major topics of interest in this workshop are:

• Biomedical data acquisition, integration (from clinical records, to medical imaging, to genomics) and related security/privacy issues.
• Issues relating the use of healthcare data in research and access to research results as evidence in healthcare.
• End-user applications (from simple client applications to critical decision support systems and clinical workflow applications) and their integration in healthgrids.
• From computing via data and collaboration grids to knowledge grids.
• Biomedical and health-related functionality for grid middleware: requirements elicitation and understanding for feedback to EGEE.

The workshop participants will then be invited to a 1-hour brainstorming discussion, which will attempt identifying possible collaborations, technology re-use, new standards, (clinical)data sharing possibilities cross-projects for the sake of clinical research, and convergence within the community towards European standards for healthgrids.

More information

For more information or to register to the workshop, please go at the workshop registration page.