NHS IT pioneers see risk of over-optimism materialise

摘要

When a group of pioneering hospitals in London went live with a major e-records system under the government's £12.7bn NHS IT scheme, a headline in The Sun set the scene for the next 18 months.rn"Data woe at two London hospitals", it said, pointing out that doctors had been forced to write notes on slips of paper when a new Care Records Service system crashed.rnBaits and The London NHS Trust and BT, the main IT contractor for London under the National Programme for IT (NPfrT), denied the story.