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Here's a competitor for that title, the NHS National Program for IT. The plan was to build a patient records system to run in every hospital in the UK. It was b
by GlennS 14y ago
Here's a competitor for that title, the NHS National Program for IT. The plan was to build a patient records system to run in every hospital in the UK. It was billed as the biggest IT project ever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health
- aneth4 14y agoWow. 20 billion pounds expected with unclear outcome. I have to wonder what the scope of such a project looks like to come within 2 orders of magnitude of that number.
- polymatter 14y agoAnd its still counting. I have a friend working in IT in the NHS and they are still spending money hand over fist on transforming digital records. Basically, nobody wants to be accused of putting tax money before accuracy of patient records which essentially means blank cheque and unbounded scope.