Poor information and defective IT can harm patients as surely as botched surgery or wrongly administered drugs. So why aren’t informatics staff regulated like nurses and doctors? Join the debate

The government has promised to give patients access to their records by 2015. This is the place to discuss the idea and how we can build on access to solve real problems facing the NHS and patients.

Cloud Computing promises to provide healthcare organisations quicker, more cost effective services ranging from diagnostic imaging storage and sharing, medical records and office systems and backup. Is the NHS ready to float up, up and away?

The group for discussion of all aspects of making the business case, demonstrating return on investment and showing the benefits of NHS IT investments.

Telehealth and remote personal care and monitoring has huge potential to help people better manage their long term conditions and other conditions. The government has set ambitious targets to get three million people supported through telehealth over the next few years. What are the challenges and how can they be overcome? What are the benefits? What works and what doesn’t?

Social media technologies like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and many, many more offer a host of ways to build new direct and immediate relationships with and between patients. This group is for discussions on current and potential uses of social media for healthcare.