INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTs) IN THE SERVICES OF HEALTHCARE SECTOR IN EUROPE

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) consists of all technical means used to handle information and aid communication, including both computer and network hardware as well as necessary software. Information and Communication Technologies tools and services are used in many sectors like development, education, e-services, policy, health and medicine and so one. This paper links the ICTs tools and services for health. ICTs has the potential to impact almost every aspect of the health sector. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have an important role in service engineering, improving medical knowledge and practice, and defining new fields of research.eHealth, healthcare sector, telemedicine services, health portals, health information networks, digital health infrastructure

Grid Database - Management, OGSA and Integration

The problem description of data models and types of databases has generated and gives rise to extensive controversy generated by their complexity, the many factors involved in the actual process of implementation. Grids encourage and promote the publication, sharing and integration of scientific data, distributed across Virtual Organizations. Scientists and researchers work on huge, complex and growing datasets. The complexity of data management within a grid environment comes from the distribution, heterogeneity and number of data sources.Early Grid applications focused principally on the storage, replication and movement of file-based data.. Many Grid applications already use databases for managing metadata, but increasingly many are associated with large databases of domain-specific information. In this paper we will talk about the fundamental concepts related to grid-database access, management, OGSA and integration