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Thoughts on Grids in a Healthcare Environment
Brecht Claerhout, Custodix NV, BelgiumAbstract
Grid technology can serve those domains that demand full dynamic interoperability, computing power, massive data storage, and data centralisation. Today's (bio-)medical community requires all of these, hence the introduction of Grid technology to health research is both imperative and unavoidable. However, this particular introduction creates several issues that are new to the Grid community: privacy (confidentiality) issues concerning sensitive medical and genetic patient data. In present-day healthcare informatics, security and Privacy Enhancing Techniques have already proven their usefulness for the protection of sensitive healthcare related information. This raises the question which new security and privacy services could and should be integrated in a healthcare Grid. At least the Grid community should be aware of the specific (ethical and legal) confidentiality requirements typical to the collection, storage and processing of (bio-)medical data.
Biography
Brecht Claerhout is a Electronics Engineer, employed by Custodix NV, a small Belgian company specialised in privacy protection services mainly for healthcare applications. In charge of the R&D of new applications at Custodix, he is also responsible for scientific research projects like PRIDEH-GEN (FP-5) and INFOBIOMED (FP-6) focusing on confidentiality aspects in a (bio-)medical environment (security and privacy). Furthermore, Brecht assists Prof. G. De Moor in his work for the Belgian Ministry of Health in the Telematics Commission, for the CEN/TC251 Security Workgroup and in his teaching activities at Gent University. He has published several conference and journal papers on the subject of security and privacy protection.