Dear participants of INIC09 and International Integrated Care Community

We want to thank you all for following our invitation to the 9th International Conference on Integrated Care which took place in Vienna from the 3rd to the 6th November 2009! True to our leading topic “Lost in Transition—Meeting the Challenge through Integrated Care”, we managed to bridge cultural and organisational gaps, technical interfaces and strained resources and brought to you the INIC09. In the wake of the first decennium of the Conferences of the International Network for Integrated Care (INIC) and the International Journal for Integrated Care (IJIC) this meeting not only gave an overview of the status quo, it also ventured into the future of integrated care. To introduce core issues of transitional management and to spark discussions in the streams dealing with these issues, our three keynote speakers presented unique insights into the complexities of transitional management.