On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 22:10:33 -0000, Laurie Slater wrote:
>ISDN out of my back pocket, but our HA have offered 100%
>reimbursement for set up cost and running costs to the end of the
>financial year. I'm pretty sure this will be a nationally agreed
>formula given Blair's blurb. So come the end of the financial
>year, if I am asked to contribute the weeniest fraction of my
>ongoing maintenance costs to enable this pipe dream, my answer
>will be simple and not negotiable, I shall disconnect.
I suppose many would do the same, yes?
So, the most the NHS can hope for is a bunch of GPs going through the
enormous cost and trouble of connecting to a network that is devoid of
applications only to disconnect next March!
Then what?
I guess it'll go the way clinical computing went when it started in a
haphazard bonkers way and we ended up with systems that are not
interoperable. I can see few years from now everybody saying things
like: "why did we set it up this way?" "why can't we have networks that
do x,y or z?"
The windmills of the mind keep turning round and round.
Risk
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