Time to rethink health care and ICT?

The health care system in the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) has started building a modern, dependable, information and communication technology (ITC) under its program, National Program for Information Technology (IT), run by the government agency National Health Service (NHS). The program is different from other health care initiatives in ways that the financial commitment exceeds anything done earlier, and the investment is at a national level that differentiates it from any conventional regional or even hospital level. This new initiative is aimed at eliminating certain deficiencies associated with the conventional systems, such as lack of compatibility between ICT applications and work practices, environments and culture, lack of robust, widely accepted evaluation methods, and various organizational uncertainties.