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With the progress in wireless sensor, mobile communication technology, stream processing, etc., a significant effort has been placed on advanced information technology for effective healthcare and wellness in both academic and industrial applications. A variety of new healthcare concepts for supporting and assisting users in technology-enhanced environments emerge, such as transforming reactive care to proactive and preventive care, clinic-centric to patient-centered practice, training-based interventions to globally aggregated evidence, and episodic response to continuous well-being monitoring and maintenance. These e-healthcare solutions are characterized by a combined use of information and communication technologies and health monitoring devices. As healthcare domain knowledge is not familiar to users, ehealthcare technologies substantially depend on the patients’ acceptance to use them. Naturally, healthcare systems are expected to provide user-friendly, professional and personalized assistance, such as the effective interactions between users and the system, user-friendly interpretation about context-specific information concerning the patients and their situated environments, etc. Moreover, the increasing willingness of people to be involved in making decisions about their health or disease, have been paving the way of advances in personalized healthcare. To address these challenges, smart and interactive healthcare systems are expected to provide professional and personalized assistance, and interpret context-specific information concerning the patients and their situated environments. In response to the call for papers, we were pleased to see many submissions from many countries and areas all over the world, which was far more than we expected. Totally, we have collected 51 papers, and only accepted 16 papers through the serious peer-review process. In this topical collection, we have selected the following high quality papers contributed by academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to smart and interactive healthcare systems. With the development of IoT (Internet of Thing), big data analysis and cloud computing, cloud-based smart healthcare application attracts a lot attention. In the article BTowards Interactive Medical Content Delivery between Simulated Body Sensor Networks and Practical Data Center^, X. Shi, et al., develop a cloud-based smart healthcare system by semi-physical simulation technology. In recent years, new technologies, such as body area networks, cloud computing, and smart clothing, have allowed the improvement of the quality of services. X. Xu, et al., in the ar t ic le BHealth Monitor ing and Management for Manufacturing Workers in Adverse Working Conditions^, propose a five-layer architecture for health monitoring and management of manufacturing workers, and analyze the system implementation process, including environmental data This article is part of the Topical Collection onMobile &Wireless Health.