Ian Cheong wrote: > At 4:22 pm +1100 18/3/06, Ken Harvey wrote: >> Keeping the NHS electronic spine on track >> >> http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/332/7542/656 >> >> Michael Cross, freelance journalist 1 >> >> 1 PO Box 40073, London N6 5ZJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> The NHS's "digital nervous system" is going through a jittery phase. >> Its next test will be its acceptance by the public > > I attended a speech by Bill Gates in the Sydney Entertainment Centre > several years ago. In it he introduced the "digital nervous system" as a > major M$ strategy. > > google lists this as #3, after an M$ reference at #2: > http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Digital+Nervous+System > > So it looks like either the journalist or the NHS has been microsofted.
It does say at the end of the article: "Competing interests: MC carried out a short assignment for the national programme for information technology in 2002 and has also written occasional articles and accepted paid speaking engagements for at least two contractors to the programme, BT and Microsoft." > I have learned the UK is spending a load of money in a short time. I > hope they get something useful out of it! Richard Grainger (who reminded me a lot in both manner and appearance of of the actor Bob Hoskins, but then, I just love Dennis Potter's Pennies from Heaven) spoke at a Health Leaders Network conference in Melbourne in 2004. He explained that the UK NHS would be partially underwriting the software development costs (albeit paid on delivery) of lots of new health care products by Microsoft, CERNER and iSoft (which is using Microsoft .NET for all new software development, so has become a close Microsoft ally), but the NHS would get a share of the royalties when the new software is flogged to all the other countries around the world who will visit the UK and salivate all over the NHS' computer system (hope they have waterproof keyboards). So if it works, the participating vendors, the British Labor Party and the British people will all be happy. The Tories won't be. If it doesn't work, the Tories will be over the moon, and the software vendors will have had a lot of their product development costs paid for by the British taxpayer, although I have heard that there is trouble as well as a pot of tea brewing in Chennai - see http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=1368 Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
