Healthgrid 2009
The 7th international HealthGrid conference brings together the fast-growing community of HealthGrid researchers and users and fosters closer interactions among them. The conference sessions address the multidisciplinary educational and professional development needs of the community, including Grid middleware and Grid applications developers, Biomedical and health informatics users, Security specialists and Policy makers. The HealthGrid Association is an initiative that brings together people from a variety of disciplines to promote awareness and use of Grid technologies in the biomedical sector. The HealthGrid community emphasizes a strong relationship among the private sector, government agencies, clinicians, and researchers. These connections foster the integration of Grid practices and tools into the fields of biology, medicine, and health.
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Jun 29, 2009 09:00 AM
to Jul 01, 2009 06:00 PM |
| Where | Berlin, dbb-Forum |
| Contact Name | contact-hg2009@healthgrid.org |
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The HealthGrid conference is the premier conference on the transformation of biomedical research, education and medical care through the application of Grid technologies. HealthGrid is dedicated to:
- Enhancing biomedical research and healthcare delivery
- Creating an open collaborative virtual community
- Communicating the collective knowledge of the HealthGrid community
HealthGrid is an interdisciplinary community of computer scientists, physicians, medical educators and students, epidemiologists, bioinformatics and medical informatics experts, military medicine specialists, security and policy makers, economists and futurists.
The conference program of the seventh HealthGrid conference will include a number of high profile keynote presentations, complemented by a set of refereed papers, selected through a call for papers.
Key Note Speakers
- Joël Bacquet – European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
- Peter V. Coveney – University College London, Department of Chemistry, UK
- Carole Goble – University of Manchester, School of Computer Science, UK
- Carl Kesselman – University of Southern California, Information Science Institute, USA
- Jonathan Silverstein – Computation Institute at University of Chicago, Michigan, USA
Open Workshops on 29 June 2009
1st RADICAL Expert Workshop
Security and privacy challenges in personalised healthcare for the 21st century While the integration of recorded medical and genetic data in distributed databases (i.e. genomic, pathologic, imaging and clinical data) is essential for the technologies and processes within the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) framework, the broad use of personal data gives cause for reconsidering the secure access and comprehensive protection of privacy and choices. With this workshop RADICAL invites experts from the field and also the wider European audience to reflect the current state of privacy and security in the VPH and related clinical fields and as well to intensify collaboration in the framework of the VPH-NoE.
Requirements for a Life Sciences Specific Support Centre
The EGEE project is going to come to an end in April 2010. In less than one year from now, it will be replaced by a federation of National Grid Initiatives. The European Grid Initiative (http://www.egi.org) aims at fostering synergy between the NGIs at different levels: middleware, training, user support, etc. Research communities currently exploiting the resources of EGEE and its related projects are being encouraged to set up Specific Support Centres which would act as scientific gateways to the central EGI services and to the NGIs. The life sciences community, ranging from healthcare to bioinformatics through medical informatics, is currently very active on EGEE, representing more than 5% of the overall CPU usage. The goal of the workshop is to discuss
the requirements for a Life Sciences Specific Support Centre.
The workshop is an opportunity to enlarge the discussions around the needs for life sciences in Europe, to discuss the pros and cons of the different middlewares deployed on the European NGIs and to define a common strategy for the coming years.
