EGEE is a project funded by the European Union under contract IST Risks of being on the Grid: the BioMedical challenge Yannick Legré CNRS/IN2P3 – EGEE Biomedical WG GGF 12, Brussels September 21st

GGF12, September 21st the HealthGrid vision INDIVIDUALISED HEALTHCARE MOLECULAR MEDECINE Databases Association Modelling Computation HealthGRID Computational recommendation Public Health Patient Tissue, organ Cell Molecule Patient related data Public Health Patient Tissue, organ Cell Molecule S. Nørager Y. Paindaveine European Commission DG-INFSO In this context "Health" does not involve only clinical practice but covers the whole range of information from molecular level (genetic and proteomic information) over cells and tissues, to the individual and finally the population level (social healthcare).

GGF12, September 21st Health Grid – Security Needs ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability TraceabilityPhysical Security Access Control Credit: Syed Naqvi

GGF12, September 21st Issues related to medical data Ubiquitous, Quick and Secure Transfer of Information Medical Information is:  Multimedia, Large and Increasing in Size.  Relevant on the Long-term.  Medical Data is Critically Confidential.  Legal Regulations at National Level is an added difficulty to the Integration of Large Repositories of Personal Data.  Nearly Impossible to: Store all Data Outside the Hospital Borders. Have plain Access to whole Personal Data.  Difficult to: Provide Access from the Internet. Replicate Data (Even Temporally). Pervasive Access and Fault Tolerance  Medical Healthcare is Performed All Over the Clock, 7 Days a Week.  Fault Tolerance to All Other Critical Resources (Water, Light, Heating) is Considered.  Difficult to: Guarantee an ‘Always on’ Application. Guarantee a Quality of Service. Credit: Ignacio Blanquer

GGF12, September 21st Risks No respect of data privacy policies  GRID Nodes Should be Installed Within Medical Data Networks.  Data Should be Stored Encrypted.  Information that Flows Across the GRID Should be Filtered to Show Only the Relevant and Authorized Data.  Consider the Legal Issues of European and National Directives.  Confidentiality, Integrity, Authorization and Authentication are Provided by the GRID. Lack of Robustness  Fault Tolerant and Pervasive.  High degree of Repeatability in the Results. Failure in protecting peoples’ privacy can have devastating consequences on business (e.g. public opinion, lawsuits) Health related information is very sensitive and prone to abuse  Privacy impacts society as a whole (e.g. loan applications, insurance, scholarship,...) Privacy violation is irreversible  Confidential information can never be considered confidential again, once it was out in the open Legal Violation  Different regulation for different countries… Credit: Ignacio Blanquer

GGF12, September 21st Ongoing work on biomedical requirements in Europe… Within the framework of EGEE, biomedical security requirements described in ( HealthGrid white paper publicly available on HealthGrid web site since June 15th, 2004 (  Chapter 8 dedicated to Privacy, Security and Ethical issues  Chapter 9 dedicated to Legal issues

GGF12, September 21st The HealthGrid initiative To provide a place of dialog and exchange between European and international projects  Web site: To produce collaborative documents  HealthGrid White Paper To organize conferences and workshops on Health grids Third European HealthGrid Conference Location : Oxford (UK) Dates: April 7th – 10th 2005 Information and registration (available soon):