HealthGrid: Toward Collaborative and On-Demand Healthcare
 
 Modern grid technologies facilitate the coupling of geographically
 distributed resources and offer consistent and secure access
 irrespective of users' physical location or access point. This enables
 sharing, selection, and aggregation of a wide variety of distributed
 resources, such as supercomputers, storage systems, data sources,
 instruments, software systems, etc., and allows them to be used as a
 single, unified resource. This special issue focuses on the development,
 deployment and evaluation of grid technologies in health-related
 research and practice.
 Specifically, the special issue concentrates on all aspects of
 grid-enabled infrastructures, testbeds, management and security in
 support of the following health informatics areas:
 
 * Tele-systems for Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Therapeutic Applications
 * Health Data Storage & Retrieval
 * Biomedical Modeling and Simulation
 * Medical Imaging: Management, Analysis, Processing and Simulation
 * Distributed Medical Database Management and Integration
 * Integration of Health Information
 * Data Mining and Visualization of Medical Data
 * Text Mining of Medical Information Bases
 * Social Healthcare
 * Pharmaceutics and Clinical Trials
 * Computerized Epidemiology
 * Collaborative and Proprietary Health Grids
 * Integrative Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics Systems
 
 In addition to the focus areas, research articles reporting on original
 results of developing, deploying and evaluating grid techniques in
 broader health-related areas such as bioinformatics, clinical
 informatics, bioimaging, and public health informatics are also
 solicited. Prospective authors are welcome to discuss the issue scope
 with the editors before submitting their articles.
 
 Authors are referred to the general guidelines for manuscript formatting 
 instructions available at the official JCMC website.
 
 Tentative submission deadline is March 31, 2005. Authors should submit
 their manuscripts as email attachments to huang@cse.uconn.edu. All 
 submissions will be acknowledged and promptly reviewed.
 


 Guest Editors (in alphabetical order):
 
 Prof. Werner Dubitzky
 Professor of Bioinformatics
 School of Biomedical Sciences
 University of Ulster
 Northern Ireland
 
 Prof. Chun-Hsi Huang
 Assistant Professor
 Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Connecticut
 Storrs, CT 06269 USA
 
 Dr. Vincenzo Lanza
 Chief of Anesthesiology Department
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 90123-PALERMO Italy
 
 Prof. Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
 UTC Professor
 Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Connecticut
 Storrs, CT 06269 USA