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Objectives: Grid Enabled Medical Simulation Services (GEMSS) aims to provide a health-computing Grid platform suited to the provision of accessible compute-intensive health applications. The viability and performance of the Grid resource is to be tested using a series of six applications, intended to highlight strengths and weaknesses of the Grid infrastructure. Methods: The six applications are diverse and cover surgical planning, medical image processing and reconstruction, bio-fluids simulation and radiosurgery treatment planning. These are being hosted on High Performance Computing facilities in Austria and Germany with middleware built on top of existing Grid and Web technologies. This approach maintains compliance with current standards and ensures future extensibility and interoperability. The GEMSS middleware includes features that support quality of service aspects, business and security. The latter is particularly important within the legal context of European-wide health computing, and secure operation designed to safeguard patient data and confidentiality must b