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Part I - Overview: Assessing Legal, Ethical and Governance Challenges in eHealth.- Part II - Legal Challenges: Legal Regulation of Electronic Health Records: a Comparative Analysis of Europe and the US.- Electronic Health Records and Privacy Interests.- Data Protection and Health Care Information Systems: Where is the Balance?.- Legal Challenges Regarding Telemedicine Services.- The Internet and Pharmaceutical Drugs in the Era of Interoperable eHealth Systems Across the European Union .- Understanding Liability in eHealth: Towards Greater Clarity at European Union Level.- Part III - Ethical Challenges: eHealth: Frameworks for Assessing Ethical Impacts.- Telehealth and Service Delivery in the Home: Care, Support and the Importance of User Autonomy.- Medicine 2.0: Ethical Challenges of Social Media for the Health Profession.- The Internet and health: International approaches to evaluating the quality of Web-based health information.- Patients, trust and ethics in information privacy in eHealth.- Part IV - Governance Challenges: eHealth Governance in Scotland: A Cross-Sectoral and Cross-National Comparison.- IT Governance in Healthcare Institutions.- IT Governance in Acute Healthcare - A Critical Review of the Current Literature.- The European eHealth Governance - A New Way Forward.