Designing for e-Health: recurring scenarios in developing grid-based medical imaging systems.
Geddes J., Mackay C., Lloyd S., Simpson A., Power D., Russell D., Jirotka M., Katzarova M., Rossor M., Fox N., Fletcher J., Hill D., McLeish K., Chen Y., Hajnal JV., Lawrie S., Job D., McIntosh A., Wardlaw J., Sandercock P., Palmer J., Perry D., Procter R., Ure J., Hartswood M., Slack R., Voss A., Ho K., Bath P., Clarke W., Watson G.
The paper draws on a number of Grid projects, particularly on the experience of NeuroGrid, a UK project in the Neurosciences tasked with developing a Grid-based collaborative research environment to support the sharing of digital images and patient data across multiple distributed sites. It outlines recurrent socio-technical issues, highlighting the challenges of scaling up technological networks in advance of the regulatory networks which normally regulate their use in practice.