Integrating Clinical Trial Imaging Data Resources Using Service-Oriented Architecture and Grid Computing

Clinical trials which use imaging typically require data management and workflow integration across several parties. We identify opportunities for all parties involved to realize benefits with a modular interoperability model based on service-oriented architecture and grid computing principles. We discuss middleware products for implementation of this model, and propose caGrid as an ideal candidate due to its healthcare focus; free, open source license; and mature developer tools and support

Evaluating Integration Approaches Benefits Adopted by Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare organizations consist of a large number of disparate information systems (IS). These have been deployed to support specific needs of healthcare organisations. The information sharing among these disparate and heterogeneous systems has always been one of the most prominent issues for the management. As every day people die in hospitals, due to medical errors, which is generally causes due to non-integrated IT infrastructure. Various integration approaches have been adopted to solve integration problems. Although, some of them have partially supported the integration efforts, there are still many issues remaining to be solved such as level of integration, interpretability, cost reduction, and patients’ data security. There is marketplace confusion in healthcare organisations, due to the variety of integration approaches that support the integration of healthcare IS. This paper seeks to describe the current deployed integration approaches in healthcare organisations. In doing so, the benefits of these approaches are evaluated. This evaluation will help researchers to better understand issues surrounding the benefits of integration approaches

Developing a Viable Intranet Site

This thesis will focus on establishing consistent guidelines in developing a successful corporate intranet website. Office intranets are often neglected due to popularity of electronic commerce, and the company\u27s investment in their public website. Standard instructions on how to develop a viable intranet site are not easily found and not likely taught. With intranet development being a relatively new field, site expectations are very subjective. A site\u27s perceived correctness largely depends on specific goals an organization has established for its site. There are generally high expectations and low budgets for intranets and if usability goals are not kept close at hand, design standards can become a political issue. This study attempts to identify the main components that contribute to a viable intranet site. The objective is to determine how non-technical employees can create successful sites for their department, detailing one such employee\u27s experience. The following chapters contain: current usage of corporate intranets; identification of research resources; guidelines for creating a dynamic intranet; the result of a first attempt at developing a site and finally, an evaluation and recommendation for future improvement of the site. Research and analysis determines four categories to consider when planning an intranet site: content; design; usability testing; and promotion. In order to positively impact employee communication and productivity, intra.net sites must be carefully planned, written, and tested. Establishing intra.net site development guidelines will help ensure a consistently positive outcome

Grid Analysis of Radiological Data

IGI-Global Medical Information Science Discoveries Research Award 2009International audienceGrid technologies and infrastructures can contribute to harnessing the full power of computer-aided image analysis into clinical research and practice. Given the volume of data, the sensitivity of medical information, and the joint complexity of medical datasets and computations expected in clinical practice, the challenge is to fill the gap between the grid middleware and the requirements of clinical applications. This chapter reports on the goals, achievements and lessons learned from the AGIR (Grid Analysis of Radiological Data) project. AGIR addresses this challenge through a combined approach. On one hand, leveraging the grid middleware through core grid medical services (data management, responsiveness, compression, and workflows) targets the requirements of medical data processing applications. On the other hand, grid-enabling a panel of applications ranging from algorithmic research to clinical use cases both exploits and drives the development of the services

CPA\u27s guide to the Internet

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_guides/1967/thumbnail.jp

Ensuring the security and privacy of information in mobile health-care communication systems

The sensitivity of health-care information and its accessibility via the Internet and mobile technology systems is a cause for concern in these modern times. The privacy, integrity and confidentiality of a patient’s data are key factors to be considered in the transmission of medical information for use by authorised health-care personnel. Mobile communication has enabled medical consultancy, treatment, drug administration and the provision of laboratory results to take place outside the hospital. With the implementation of electronic patient records and the Internet and Intranets, medical information sharing amongst relevant health-care providers was made possible. But the vital issue in this method of information sharing is security: the patient’s privacy, as well as the confidentiality and integrity of the health-care information system, should not be compromised. We examine various ways of ensuring the security and privacy of a patient’s electronic medical information in order to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of the information

CPA\u27s guide to the Internet

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_guides/1966/thumbnail.jp

Information Outlook, December 2005

Volume 9, Issue 12https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_io_2005/1011/thumbnail.jp

Information Outlook, September 2004

Volume 8, Issue 9https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_io_2004/1008/thumbnail.jp

Information Outlook, September 2004

Volume 8, Issue 9https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_io_2004/1008/thumbnail.jp