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Abstract. This paper reports on the 2nd ShARe/CLEFeHealth eval-uation lab which continues our evaluation resource building activities for the medical domain. In this lab we focus on patients ' information needs as opposed to the more common campaign focus of the specialised information needs of physicians and other healthcare workers. The us-age scenario of the lab is to ease patients and next-of-kins ' ease in un-derstanding eHealth information, in particular clinical reports. The 1st ShARe/CLEFeHealth evaluation lab was held in 2013. This lab consisted of three tasks. Task 1 focused on named entity recognition and normal-ization of disorders; Task 2 on normalization of acronyms/abbreviations; and Task 3 on information retrieval to address questions patients may have when reading clinical reports. This year's lab introduces a new chal-lenge in Task 1 on visual-interactive search and exploration of eHealth data. Its aim is to help patients (or their next-of-kin) in readability issues related to their hospital discharge documents and related information search on the Internet. Task 2 then continues the information extraction work of the 2013 lab, specifically focusing on disorder attribute identi-fication and normalization from clinical text. Finally, this year's Task