British Electronic Medical Record breaking records
Posted by GruntDoc on November 14th, 2006
U.K. Dept of Health: Prescription for Disaster
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The NPfIT was initially budgeted at close to $12 billion. That figure is now up to about $24 billion, according to the National Audit Office (NAO), the country’s oversight agency. And it is as high as $28.4 billion, according to other estimates. Even the lower of those two amounts is more than the price tag for building the English Channel Tunnel or Boston’s massive Big Dig project, considered to be the most expensive civil project ever. Worse, the funding established to pay for the system has, temporarily at least, dried up….
Nobody said it would be easy or cheap, but I don’t think anyone thought these projects would cost this much, either.
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