EGEE'06

Cardiology Services and the EGEE Grid

26 Sept 2006, 14:00

5h 30m

CICG

Board: 3

Poster Users & Applications Poster session

Speaker

Dr Thomas Clark (Complete Cardiology Services Ltd)

Description

Cardiology Services involve multiple Specialist Medical Disciplines and a wide variety of related procedures. Some Services must be provided locally, e.g., invasive, while others can be provided remotely, e.g., most non-invasive can be provided in part remotely. All such Services are key elements in medical diagnoses and procedures associated with the Heart and Cardiovascular System. In modern Medical Practice each Service is infused with an Information Technology component, required by Law or Practice. Internet-based Services have been developed to assist Researchers, Practitioners and Patients. The Nurse-ECG Internet Service is presented. Its User Community includes Researchers, Practitioners and Patients. The major limitation is geographic. The Value-Added by such systems increases substantially when support and accesibility is available globally on a 24/7 basis. The EGEE Grid offers such a pathway and potential growth. Basic requirements for a global Nurse-ECG System are presented. They are heavily influenced by the demonstrated need for real-time interpersonal communications and Electronic Healthcare Records for all members of the User Community.

Summary

A Geographically-limited Cardiology Service with a significant
Value-Added potential
can be widely distributed to a considerably larger User Community
via the EGEE Grid.
Researchers, Practitioners and Patients can produce and consume
related Services
continuously. Information flows, storage and access proliferate.
Access to
Researchers and Practitioners should increase as well.
Patients benefit greatly from EGEE-enabled Services with major
impacts upon Remote
and Home Medicine; Practitioners benefit substantially from the
enhanced Services
available to Telemedicine, Telesurgery and Telecardiology.
Computing Systems and Networks plus IT Applications tasks will
increase
substantially. New applications will be required to process and
manage birth-to-death
data sets for Patients plus Practice audits.
Major shifts are anticipated in Healthcare as Researchers,
Practitioners and Patients
begin to interface and work across the EGEE Grid. These shifts
will impact currently
deployed Healthcare Software, e.g., cooperating Researchers and
Practitioners will
require standards-based, interoperable and secure applications.
The practice of
Medicine will become 'cross-border' and in part 'global'.