MedSiGRe: Medical Signal Grid Repository, an integration to Italica project

The Italica Project is the implementation of an electronic health record system at the Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires. The present work shows the implementation of a medical signal grid repository module and its integration to the Italica Project. We also describe the architecture of that module and explain the design decisions taken for its construction. The integration to the preexisting system is also presented, together with the difficulties that arose from the insertion of a data grid in an environment not used to this technology. Several issues about the security and reliability of the medical data are treated as well. In this paper we also discuss the use of the grid repository as a starting point for the development of distributed processing applications.