Troubled £12bn NHS IT System to be Scaled Back: UK MP's Come to...

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Tue, 12/08/2009 - 08:55

The UK National Programme for Health IT in the NHS, by the findings of the House of Commons Public Account audit committee , has been a £12bn debacle.

Started as a starry-eyed utopian fantasy about experimental computerized clinical tools by former Prime Minister Tony Blair, nearly every possible mistake outlined at my ten year old website on HIT failure has been made, and made in abundance, the coup de grâce being dependence on an American health IT...

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