Research Article
HDGPortal: A Grid Portal Application for Pervasive Access to Process-Based Healthcare Systems
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2519, author={Vassiliki Koufi and George Vassilacopoulos}, title={HDGPortal: A Grid Portal Application for Pervasive Access to Process-Based Healthcare Systems}, proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH}, year={2008}, month={7}, keywords={Grid Portal Web Services Grid Database Services Wireless Client Pervasive Access BPEL Engine Personal Digital Assistant (PDA).}, doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2519} }- Vassiliki Koufi
George Vassilacopoulos
Year: 2008
HDGPortal: A Grid Portal Application for Pervasive Access to Process-Based Healthcare Systems
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2519
Abstract
Healthcare is an increasingly collaborative enterprise, involving many individuals and organizations. The ability to provide readily access to integrated healthcare services remotely is now essential. Although Grid technology can support the integration of healthcare services across settings of care and among providers of care, it doesn’t make these services available to authorized users at the point of care when needed. The integration of mobile and wireless devices with Grid technology can provide ubiquitous and pervasive access to Grid services. This paper presents HDGPortal, a Grid portal application which provides access to workflow-based healthcare processes using wireless Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). HDGPortal’s architecture is based on wrapping the workflow applications as web services and web service resources. These services are available to users through a number of Grid portal components that can be used for workflow enactment. HDGPortal has been implemented with a multi-layered security infrastructure in order to ensure secure access to healthcare processes.