The Akogrimo Heart Monitoring and Emergency Scenario

The patient is mobile and its health travels with him. Healthcare services should be available pervasively, integrated into the patient's environment. Mobile Grids form networks of mobile and stationary monitoring and diagnosis facilities around the patient, electronic health records, medical decision support, diagnosis and analysis services, as well as even mobile medical experts and physicians. Thus, Mobile Grids provide an infrastructure for an efficient development, provision and maintenance of complex e-health applications. The EU IST Integrated Project Akogrimo is specifying a Mobile Grid infrastructure and is prototyping the resulting framework in a testbed giving the base for the application of a Heart Monitoring and Emergency Management Scenario. Within the work of Akogrimo, this white paper gives an introduction into the usage of Mobile Grid technologies within this scenario and indicates enhanced business opportunities.