New trends in the virtualization of hospitals--tools for global e-Health.
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2006-11-10
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The development of virtual hospitals and digital medicine helps to bridge the digital divide between different regions of the world and enables equal access to high level medical care Pre operative planning intra operative navigation and minimally invasive surgery require a digital and virtual environment supporting the perception of the physician As data and computing resources in a virtual hospital are distributed over many sites the concept of the Grid should be integrated with other communication networks and platforms A promising approach is the implementation of service oriented architectures for an invisible grid hiding complexity for both application developers and end users Examples of promising medical applications of Grid technology are the real time 3D visualization and manipulation of patient data for individualized treatment planning and the creation of distributed intelligent databases of medical images