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UK government kills heart of NPfIT; Future is locally-led (computerworlduk.com)
4 points by monkeygrinder on Sept 9, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


This programme put back health IT in teh UK by a decade. Instead of promoting open standards, it pushed closed systems and demanded a rip and replace approach to existing systems, even when the replacemetn systems were pure bvapour ware.. The restof world should take note and not repeat this fiasco.




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