It seems NICTA and the WA government think the CSIRO ICT Centre/Queensland Government E-Health Research Centre is a great idea – well, good enough to emulate for their own recently announced partnership, the International Centre for Health Care Solutions, also known as e-Med. Alarm bells start ringing, however, when the article states that e-Med will focus on “futuristic virtual surgical training” and “portable medical devices”, areas in which CSIRO has previously done significant work. Hopefully politics don’t get in the way of collaboration between eHRC and E-Med (and indeed other groups) – there are a huge number of critical health problems to be solved and it would be a great shame to see duplication of effort for the sake of political point scoring.