http://www.infomaticsonline.co.uk/news/1125702
It may be valuable to document all the bits and pieces, especially given the risk of the billion pound effort to "boil the ocean" from above....
Joseph
Wayne Wilson wrote:
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Adrian Midgley wrote: | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/25/nhsia_vapes_oss_paper/ | I found this link on the same page of the story. It's the 'rest of the story' as Paul Harvey used to say.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/12/nhs_it_30bn/
"The NPfIT is a multi-billion pound overhaul of the NHS' IT systems. The government first announced �2.3bn of central funding for the project over three years. This has now risen to �6.2bn over ten years.
However, the Department of Health estimates that implementation costs are likely to add between �12bn-�24bn to the bill,..."
Curiously enough, while reading this page, smack in the middle of the text is an animated ad for Microsoft Windows Server 2003, showing how it has better cost/performance for web serving. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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