Computer Engineering Department, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2010;680:669-76. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5913-3_74.
Advances in information technologies in the past decades expanded the medical information systems outside the boundaries of healthcare institutions. Currently, sharing of medical data among medical institutions for collaborative, research, training, and diagnostic purposes is a challenging topic in medicine and computer sciences. This study focuses on how virtual organizations can be created for sharing PACS archives of geographically distributed organizations. First, we introduce DIPACS 1.0 framework that we implemented for small- and medium-scale distributed organizations. Then, we propose a grid-based framework to expand DIPACS 1.0 to encompass large-scale distributed environments. We believe that grids that integrate computing, storage, and network resources of dynamic and geographically disperse organizations will provide secure, reliable, flexible, and high-performance infrastructures for next generation health information systems.
过去几十年信息技术的进步将医疗信息系统扩展到了医疗机构之外。目前，医疗机构之间为了协作、研究、培训和诊断目的而共享医疗数据是医学和计算机科学领域的一个具有挑战性的话题。本研究重点关注如何为地理上分布的组织创建用于共享 PACS 档案的虚拟组织。首先，我们介绍了我们为中小规模分布式组织实现的 DIPACS 1.0 框架。然后，我们提出了一个基于网格的框架，将 DIPACS 1.0 扩展到大规模分布式环境。我们相信，将动态和地理上分散的组织的计算、存储和网络资源集成在一起的网格将为下一代健康信息系统提供安全、可靠、灵活和高性能的基础设施。
