OBJECTIVES: The goal of this paper is to identify how Grid technology can be applied for the development and deployment of integration systems, bringing together distributed and heterogeneous biomedical information sources for medical applications. METHODS: The integration of new genetic and medical knowledge in clinical workflows requires the development of new paradigms for information management in which the ability to access and relate disparate data sources is essential...
Keywords: Grid technology, Medical Informatics, Computational Biology, systems integration, health applications
01/2005 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer