eHealth 2008 will take place at the City University, in London between the 8^th and 9^th of September 2008. This event is devoted to analyze the role that eHealth will play in the delivery of healthcare records across the globe.

The issues and topics that will be discussed are the following:

• What pitfalls and challenges need to be considered (e.g. data management policies, legacy environments, system-to-system integration and reliability, testing)?
• What architecture considerations, infrastructure and supporting common process are required?
• Benefits and challenges with implementation of process standards;
• What have we learned from our implementation efforts to-date: commercial and governmental?
• How to monitor and evaluate the benefits of eHealth solutions?
• Examining how patients and care providers' lives can be transformed by the eHealth solutions;
• Privacy legislation updates on current implementation achievements and challenges;
• Security services what are the identity management requirements?
• Professional Confidentiality and Trust what ethical and legal obligations must be considered?
• Motivation, incentive and alignment - connections between the will and the way, exploration of the core elements needed to encourage sustainable change as new systems are introduced and grounded in the practice environment;
• Getting stakeholders involved in planning and development and sharing the benefits as new technologies are realized.

This Conference is organized as a meeting point for telecare product vendors, policy makers, government ministers, academics, clinicians and all those involved in electronic & mobile health, to examine and to share ideas contributing to the advancement of telecare into the 21st century.