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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday December 09 2015, @06:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the so-much-for-project-management dept.

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).

Previously: UK National Health Service Dumps Oracle For FOSS NoSQL


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday December 09 2015, @08:54AM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday December 09 2015, @08:54AM (#273859) Journal

    There are systems, open source, and quasi open source. And they work pretty much right out of the box/RPM/DEB. At least for simple encrypted email.

    But the medical records problem is slightly different than you emailing some contract to your business partner across the world.

    Not only do you have to send mail encrypted, you have to send it to 10 different people at once, with all sorts of digital attachments.
    Those all have to be encrypted, sent individually. and its all got to be pretty much automatic, from whatever terminal happens
    to be the closest. Just the key management issues involved are horrendous. Do the keys get stored behind a password protected login?

    Will every staff have to carry cards? USB keys? Is a simple badge scan sufficient to access all records? Encrypt/decrypt all email?

    Medical records should all be stored encrypted. But access to them may, at any time, become a matter of life and death. And you can never
    be sure which doctor/nurse might need that information. There has to be a fast flexible system of granting access to Each new night nurse,
    or consulting doctor.

    There are a lot of moving parts, and its not a simple problem of encrypting each email with a single doctor public key.

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