Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> NHS chief explains NPfIT delays
Good Goat, are they still flogging the rotten corpse of /that/ dead
horse? Well apart from the criminal waste of taxpayers' money, is no
one in the NHS even slightly concerned about what happens to patient
records, in the event that Lorenzo or Cerner start making Ransomware
demands on that data?
[quote]
Some doctors who use Dr. Notes' electronic medical records software say
they have been denied access to the program and their patients' medical
records because they refused to pay increased technical support fees.
[/quote]
http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2006/07/03/story8.html
Then there's the privacy issue. Apparently the security on this system
is so lax that two-thirds of all GPs surveyed are against having their
own medical records on this shared system:
http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/news/item.cfm?ID=2635
With the money they've wasted on this farce, they could have paid a
handful of engineers to just write an open source version from scratch.
It probably would have been implemented fully by now, cost them a small
fraction of what they've wasted so far, been far more secure, and they
wouldn't have had the dark cloud of Ransomware hanging over their heads.
Mindless bureaucrats and their money are easily parted.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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