Telemedicine services are very relevant tools to train local physicians and
to improve diagnosis by exchanging medical data. Telemedicine networks allow
these exchanges but the set-up of multipoint dynamic telemedicine requires
moving towards GRID technologies. A healthgrid is an environment where data of
medical interest can be stored and is easily available between the different
actors of healthcare. Two telemedicine applications were developed to link
physicians from Burkina Faso and France with the perspective of setting up a
grid infrastructure between the participating medical sites. A web site to
exchange diagnosis on diabetic retinopathy was developed in PHP and another
application using web services was developed to exchange patient information
between two databases.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, IST-Africa 2006 Conference, Pretoria, South
Africa, to be published in the proceeding
