National IT Programme for sale?
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007So Isoft is on the block & one of the bidders is Cerner. So after all the chest beating about promoting a choice of systems & a wider ecosystem of suppliers which was the rationale given in the early days of the NPfIT for the numerous disastrous choices they made, we are now in a situation where one LSP controls the implementation plan for the acute sector in the entire country with the other players in supporting roles.
And we have ended up with the worst of all worlds. with a poor modification of an off the shelf system instead of a solution that suited the requirements on the ground. Whither diversity?
With the new mantra of local ownership of the CfH programme, I hope that the clinical community are involved more than they have been so far or we might as well just write off the billions still to be spent & return to writing on pieces of slate.
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