| The UK should have outsourced to Germany: "£12.7bn computer scheme to create patient record system is to be scrapped after years of delays" http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/sep/22/nhs-it-project... Instead they outsourced to people who outsourced to people... "Accenture; Computer Sciences Corporation, or CSC; Fujitsu and BT. They were known as local service providers, or LSPs. BT and Fujitsu picked a US software firm, IDX, to work with, while Accenture and CSC both picked a British software company called iSoft. iSoft who offered a software system called Lorenzo, a program that had "achieved significant acclaim from healthcare providers”. "However, the program was not finished..." "CSC had to continue on its own, while the other two providers, BT and Fujitsu, were having their own problems. They were trying to implement American software, which is not such an easy thing to do in a British hospital, because American hospitals rely on billing for each and every activity and do not, conversely, expect to have to handle waiting lists." http://news.techeye.net/business/nhs-it-debacle-debated-in-p... |