10 Healthcare is expensive
20 Technology is good
30 So we use technology to make health care cheap
40 We announce massive NHS-IT project
50 We spend $20Bn
60 We discover project totally useless and abandon it
70 goto 10
20 Technology is good
30 So we use technology to make health care cheap
40 We announce massive NHS-IT project
50 We spend $20Bn
60 We discover project totally useless and abandon it
70 goto 10
(for non-Brit HNers not aware of the NHS-IT project reference, the not-so-thrift previous Government launched various IT projects to 'improve' the NHS, such as http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15014288 which cost £11bn, took 9+ years and was a big failure overall... mind you, they did create IT projects since they thought they sounded 'sexy' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12905303 - so I guess it's little wonder the main NHS-IT project failed)
at one point, all people want to be healthy, they just don't have tools to do it.
(1): I just skimmed lightly through both links btw.
I often wonder why open-source can't provide a good and cheap solution to this NHS IT problem. I know I'd happily work on something that will benefit the health of the entire population. I don't find it too hard to imagine that there are lots of other developers out there who feel the same way I do.
The ministry of defence stock control project is similarly behind schedule and overbudget - and last time they tested it they had 8Bn worth of kit the army couldn't find.
I mean how difficult is it to make a stock control system ??
EX: If your accounting software is more complex than quick books your probably doing it wrong.