CERN Accelerating science

Internal Note
Report number	CERN-IT-Note-2008-009
Title	The Impact of Grid on Health Care Digital Repositories
Author(s)	Donno, Flavia (CERN) ; Ronchieri, Elisabetta (INFN, CNAF)
Corporate author(s)	CERN. Geneva. IT Department
Publication	2008
Imprint	16 Sep 2008
Number of pages	9
Note	This paper has been accepted for publication in HICSS-42 proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society.
Presented at	Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 05 Jan - 08 Jan 2009
Subject category	Computing and Computers
Keywords	Digital Repository ; Storage ; Grid ; Health Grid ; Health Care ; Storage Resource Manager ; SNIA XAM
Abstract	Grid computing has attracted worldwide attention in a variety of applications like Health Care. In this paper we identified the Grid services that could facilitate the integration and interoperation of Health Care data and frameworks world-wide. While many of the current Health Care Grid projects address issues such as data location and description on the Grid and the security aspects, the problems connected to data storage, integrity, preservation and distribution have been neglected. We describe the currently available Grid storage services and protocols that can come in handy when dealing with those problems. We further describe a Grid infrastructure to build a cooperative Health Care environment based on currently available Grid services and a service able to validate it.
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