Healthy Competition
This week’s column for the New Statesman focuses on botched government IT projects, and suggests that code commissioned by the government should be open.
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“The recent announcement that the Financial Services Authority is investigating iSoft, the troubled computer software company charged with delivering a large part of the new, centralised patient records system for the National Health Service, is just another sorry episode in the government’s Connecting for Health initiative.
”In June 2005, Fujitsu, winner of the contract for southern England, changed horses midstream and dumped its software supplier…”
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September 7th, 2006 at 3:32 pm Open Source Software (2005). No. 242. Four page POSTnote, June 2005. Prepared for the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST). Houses of Parliament, UK.
New NHS IT (2004). No 214. Four page POSTnote, Feb 2004. Prepared for the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST). Houses of Parliament, UK.