Prescription for a Health-care I.T. Disaster


Baseline Magazine takes a look at the English government’s health-care information system overhaul, showing us just how complicated and expensive health-care technology can get.

In 2002, the English government embarked on a $12 billion effort to transform its health-care system with information technology. But the country’s oversight agency now puts that figure at $24 billion, and two Members of Parliament say the project is "sleepwalking toward disaster."

Read more at http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2058194,00.asp

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