Abstracts for all the presentations are now available for viewing here.

There's a really interesting range of topics. At one end we have commentary on what kind of technologies you'll be needing to develop the application solutions of the future (George and Rob), while at the other end there are some quite meaty technical presentations about tools and techniques that you can use today (Bhaskar, John and Pasi).

There are several presentations that have a health care flavour (Jon, Pasi, Adrian and Chris), covering integration solutions, national IT initiatives, and views from both a practicing GP and the Royal Marsden Hospital.

There's several talks that have an open source angle. Adrian will be talking about how Open Source might be a better solution for health care IT than monolithic national programmes. Bhaskar will be talking about GT.M which has a GPL version and George looking at the emergence of Open Data.

Inevitably web-technologies are covered in one-way or another by many of the talks with both Rob and George looking at how to get data into and out of the Internet. While Pasi and Bhaskar will be looking at web standards from either end of the process.

Integration is an important subject these days with John, George and Pasi all covering different aspects of what is needed to provide web-services, protocols and solutions that can help disparate systems work together in unison.

Finally, there's a good International showing with Bhaskar representing Pennsylvania and bringing a US perspective, Jon discussing experiences with Nictiz the Dutch National ICT Institute for Healthcare, and Pasi talking about the low budget approach taken by the Finnish eHealth programme.

Combining these presentations together with the common underlying theme of the technology we all use in our day-to-day work has created a nicely rounded programme that will have plenty of interest for everyone. The synergy of each of the different perspectives will generate a lot of good ideas and should stimulate some healthy discussion in the networking parts of the conference. I'm really excited by the content and can't wait...