@neurIST infrastructure for advanced disease management through integration of heterogeneous data, computing, and complex processing services

The increasing volume of data describing humandisease processes and the growing complexity of understanding, managing, and sharing such data presents a huge challenge for clinicians and medical researchers. This paper presents the@neurIST system, which provides an infrastructure for biomedical research while aiding clinical care, by bringing together heterogeneous data and complex processing and computing services. Although @neurIST targets the investigation and treatment of cerebral aneurysms, the system’s architecture is generic enough that it could be adapted to the treatment of other diseases.Innovations in @neurIST include confining the patient data pertaining to aneurysms inside a single environment that offers cliniciansthe tools to analyze and interpret patient data and make use of knowledge-based guidance in planning their treatment. Medicalresearchers gain access to a critical mass of aneurysm related data due to the system’s ability to federate distributed informationsources. A semantically mediated grid infrastructure ensures that both clinicians and researchers are able to seamlessly access andwork on data that is distributed across multiple sites in a secure way in addition to providing computing resources on demand forperforming computationally intensive simulations for treatment planning and research.

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Quand la peur des dépenses incite au gaspillage humain et financier [When the fear of spending incites a human and financial waste!]

Dans les années 80, la crainte de la pléthore médicale imposait des mesures radicales. En 2002, c'est l'angoisse de l'envahisseur européen qui a justifié un moratoire sur l'ouverture de nouveaux cabinets. Aujourd'hui, alors que la Suisse recrute de plus en plus de médecins étrangers pour ses besoins, le Conseiller fédéral Couchepin brandit la menace d'une augmentation des coûts de la santé de 300 millions par an pour justifier une troisième prolongation du moratoire. Ces mesures ont été dictées par la peur d'une explosion des coûts au point de faire perdre de vue la globalité de la situation. Aujourd'hui pourtant, une gestion rationnelle des ressources impose de tout faire pour qu'un maximum de médecins puissent travailler, car la population en a besoin et a déjà beaucoup investi dans leur formation ! Pour y parvenir, la création de postes d'assistanat à temps partiel, l'adaptation urgente des structures d'accueil en garderie et le respect de conditions de travail raisonnables sont des éléments incontournables mais trop souvent négligés par les politiques et les médecins eux-mêmes !

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