New website on NHS IT problems
October 10th, 2006 at 17:24 UTC by Ross Anderson
At http://nhs-it.info, colleagues and I have collected material on the NHS National Programme for IT, which shows all the classic symptoms of a large project failure in the making. If it goes belly-up, it could be the largest IT disaster ever, and could have grave consequences for healthcare in Britain. With 22 other computer science professors, I wrote to the Health Select Committee urging them to review the project. The Government is dragging its feet, and things seem to be going from bad to worse.
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1. .$author. | October 12th, 2006 at 13:20 UTC
NHS IT Failures: Read The Wiki!…
Professor of Security Engineering Ross Anderson has, along with 22 other computer science professors, set up a wiki containing information relating to the NHS National Programme for IT. This massive project has, according to Prof. Anderson “R…
2. Ross Anderson | October 19th, 2006 at 10:08 UTC
See http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=2204, and the following discussion
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