UK's NHS Will Drop Delayed E-Records Project 86
Centralized, electronic medical records are touted as a means of increasing efficiency and patient safety. The "centralizing" and "turning electronic" phases, though, have some very rough edges. An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the Guardian about one such digitization project in the UK: "An ambitious multibillion pound programme to create a computerised patient record system across the entire NHS is being scrapped, ministers have decided. The £12.7bn National Programme for IT is being ended after years of delays, technical difficulties, contractual disputes and rising costs."
So I guess UK citizens get the money back, right? (Score:4, Funny)
It is still unclear how much money the government has agreed to pay contractors in recent negotiations over cancellation fees for scrapping the project.
Transcript of those talks:
David Cameron: We would like our money back please.
Contractors: No.
David Cameron: Jolly good. Well, carry on then.
This one's even better! (Score:4, Funny)
From the Wikipedia article:
"Granger's credentials were questioned by his own mother, a campaigner for the preservation of local health services in her area, who expressed her amazement at his appointment, criticising the whole scheme as 'a gross waste of money'".
If there wasn't so much evidence, Wikipedia's editors would likely delete that article for being so implausible. If I weren't a UK tax-payer, it'd almost be funny...