Global healthgrid : e-Science meets biomedical informatics : proceedings of HealthGrid 2008

HealthGrid 2008 is the sixth conference in this series of open forums for the integration of grid technologies and its applications in the biomedical, medical and biological domains to pave the path to an international research area in healthgrids. The main objective of the HealthGrid conference and the HealthGrid Association is the exchange and discussion of ideas, technologies, solutions and requirements that interest the grid and the life-sciences communities to foster the integration of grids into health. Subjects in this publication reflect the diversity of mature practice: Advancing Virtual Communities, offering a glimpse of the kind of communities that are brought together by means of collaboration grids; Public Health Informatics, exploring the diffusion of grid concepts and technologies in health informatics; Translational Bioinformatics, the contact point between medicine, healthcare and genomics; and Knowledge Management and Decision Support, one direction that is confidently expected to grow as the synergy of grids and 'evidence-based practice' in healthcare is exploited.

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