This is a report of the seminar held in Singapore comprising of stakeholders representing science, medicine, policy, public health, and industry assembled who shared experiences and ideas around leveraging advances in health information technology (HIT) in order to prevent and combat the spread of infectious diseases.

• Summary
• Why Health IT?
• APEC economies: Leveraging IT for disease outbreak detection and management
• Barriers to HIT implementation in combating infectious disease
• Global policy context / H1N1 Influenza
• Additional HIT case studies
• About the sponsors
• Index of key words