MIAKT: Combining Grid and Web Services for Collaborative Medical Decision Making

Description/Abstract

Providing semantic web technologies in a medical domain has its obvious advantages. Having distributed services using shared domain vocabularies provides a great impetus for the integration of disparate hospital information sytems, as well as the possibility of providing more accurate diagnoses and a well organised knowledge base for sharing, tutoring and researching. Using such disparate systems requires careful consideration both technicaly, medically and ethically. This paper describes the way the ssytem we have developed offers evidence of the promise of such enhancements in the specific area of screening for breast cancer.