eHealth 2008, the First International Conference on Electronic
healthcare for the twenty-first century, was held in City University,
London, during September 8-9, 2008. The conference was organized as a
meeting point for telecare product vendors, policy makers, government
ministers, academics, clinicians and all those involved in electronic
and mobile health, to examine and to share ideas contributing to the -
vancement of electronic healthcare into the twenty-first century. The
conference had a huge success with a large number of paper submissions.
Ninety-seven papers were submitted, of which 32 were selected for
presentation. Each paper was carefully reviewed blindly by a minimum of
three referees from the resp- tive field. A special thanks should go to
the Technical Program Committee for their hard and efficient work in the
review process. In addition to the submitted contributions, the
conference included a business pres- tation track with 12 invited talks
by key people in the world of eHealth. The business presentation track
was chaired by Sir Jonathan Michael (Deputy Director, BT Health). The
success of this conference is to be credited to the contribution of many
people.