public accounts committee

At "2009 a Pivotal Year in Healthcare IT" I linked to summary points of a Jan. 2009 report about the UK's National Program for IT in the NHS (NPfIT) entitled "The National Programme for IT in the NHS: Progress since 2006." The report was prepared by the Public Accounts Committee of the UK Parliament's House of Commons.

I have a suggestion for the Queen:

Perhaps the NpfIT (National Programme for IT in the NHS) should be renamed the "National Programme of Failed IT in the NHS."

No new acronym will be needed.

For this pleasure, the UK has spent upwards of £13 billion.

In the Battle of Britain in WW2, the Royal Air Force (RAF) heroically repelled a foreign invasion of the UK.

In my post "Academic Freedom and ED EHR's Down Under: Another Update and a Welcome Development" I reported on the Univ. of Sydney's somwehat belated support for academic freedom, and the reappearance of an essay on ED electronic health records problems in NSW by one of its informatics faculty, Prof.

Jon Patrick, after an apparently government-initiated attempt at censorship.

One of the favorite debates people involved in IT seem to like to have is over the meaning of "failure" of IT projects.

Merriam-Webster dictionary:

Main Entry: fail·ure