Global Initiative for Sentinel E-health Network on Grid – GINSENG

The GINSENG project is part of an experimental development for a “light” grid infrastructure dedicated to e-health and epidemiology. This network aims to collect distributed medical data in order to perform original data analysis thanks to the innovative technologies of grid computing. This project includes the following research areas: medical informatics, epidemiology joined with a socio-economic modeling. This network aims to federate distributed and existing medical databases, in particularly cytopathologic data, to make them available to regional and national epidemiologic structures. Thanks to the distributed architecture of the grid, the network should become interoperable with any medical centre which would need of those medical data. This project follows the Sentinel Network for Cancer Screening project (RSCA) for which we developed a prototype to share cytopatholgic medical data between labs and cancer screening associations in the Auvergne region.