The UK's first Academic Health Science Centre is generating a significant systems integration challenge for the merged institution’s IT professionals.

Next month a major milestone for clinical interoperability in healthcare will be achieved, with the first Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Connectathon.

Jon Hoeksma visits the ever-expanding US healthcare IT show, HIMSS, where business intelligence and consumer-led e-health were big themes.

Healthcare information is abundant online, but it can be hard to know what is current and medically correct. Joe Fernandez speaks to Health on the Net Foundation to see how it approaches the problem.

Philipp Grätzel reports from Berlin on developments in ambient assisted living, a fast-evolving field combining the IT, medicine, social care and housing industries.

The European Commission’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General ICT for Health team speaks to E-Health Europe about the lead market initiative for e-health.

Hubert Haag says that with 12,000 European healthcare customers T-Systems is a vital player in European e-health, Philipp Grätzel reports.

The US has led the adoption of Web 2.0 applications in healthcare, but German doctors are catching up, Philipp Grätzel reports.

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A large evaluation of assistive technologies across health and social care begins next year, Fiona Barr reports.

Network technology and services giant Cisco has a ‘vision’ of the services and capabilities required to make e-health a reality, Joe Fernandez reports.