title: Final results and exploitation plans for MammoGrid.
abstract: The MammoGrid project has delivered the first deployed instance of a healthgrid for clinical mammography that spans national boundaries. During the last year, the final MammoGrid prototype has undergone a series of rigorous tests undertaken by radiologists in the UK and Italy and this paper draws conclusions from those tests for the benefit of the Healthgrid community. In addition, lessons learned during the lifetime of the project are detailed and recommendations drawn for future health applications using grids. Following the completion of the project, plans have been put in place for the commercialisation of the MammoGrid system and this is also reported in this article. Particular emphasis is placed on the issues surrounding the transition from collaborative research project to a marketable product. This paper concludes by highlighting some of the potential areas of future development and research.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Radiologia, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy.
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Del Frate
authors.forename: Jose
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Galvez
authors.forename: Tamas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hauer
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Manset
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: McClatchey
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Odeh
authors.forename: Dmitry
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rogulin
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Solomonides
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Warren
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D019992:Databases as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008327:Mammography; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D006113:United Kingdom