Academics question UK IT initiative

The largest healthcare IT project on the planet continues to cause controversy. Just weeks after Accenture said that it was losing money on its UK NHS contracts and several hospitals decided to buy an alternate clinical IT system, there's a new development. A group of 20 leading computer scientists in the UK questions whether the system is secure enough and has the necessary capacity to deal with the volume of transactions it's supposed to handle. The government insists that the program is on track and is being constantly reviewed.

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