NHS EHR "The largest civilian IT project in the world has failed."

This BBC report is a good starting point for anyone who wants to explore the developing media coverage of the National Audit Office (NAO) report on England’s slowly-sinking care record project. If a small but wealthy country like England, with a relatively coherent health system, can’t make it work, what hope is there for unified EHRs in the USA? £7bn NHS electronic records ‘achieving little’ for patients. For context, note Adam Brimelow’s brief Analysis piece to the right of the item.

1 thought on “NHS EHR "The largest civilian IT project in the world has failed."

  1. The reason to fail is because it was taken by technicians and not by doctors. As soon the carrier of medicine and related sciences include e-Health and Telemedicine as a basic knowledge to cover, those things will not happend.

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