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A UK government report (board minutes from the Health & Social Care Information Centre) says that the National Health Service has £5 billion worth of Information Technology projects at high risk of failure:
The ratings are based on gateway reports assessing the risk of four IT projects this year. All are related as "red" or "amber/red" meaning successful delivery is either impossible or extremely unlikely. Those projects include the remaining electronic health records contracts with BT and CSC, due to end in 2015 and 2016.
According to the HSCIC report, the £2.3bn CSC Local Service Provider (LSP) programme has now been flagged as "red", up from "amber/red" when the Major Projects Authority last released its rating for September 2014. Both programmes were originally started in 2003/2004 and have had an extremely troubled history.
Other high-rated projects on the list included the £168m NHSmail2 programme, to provide secure email across the NHS, which has slipped from "amber" to "amber/red".
NHSmail2 is an upgrade to the NHS's Microsoft Exchange based email system. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and BT Health London have managed IT services for different divisions of England (CSC manages the North, Midlands & Eastern cluster, BT manages the London cluster).
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday December 09 2015, @08:37AM
It's mostly distribution deadlines failing. Likely local clinics that couldn't be bothered with digitizing ancient paperwork or geriatric patients being sent to the local pharmacy to pick prescriptions with hand written notes from their doctor.
The email system failing is especially comical since it's a standard stock Microsoft Exchange server that has been up to specs (was literally dictating the specs in a way that only MS will win the contract) from day 1. What's failing is getting some "health care professional" to bother using it when they can just make a call and have whatever done like that.
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