Has general practice computing peaked?
Serious losses will result from England’s National Programme for IT,
warns Dr Trefor Roscoe.
keywords: primary care, gp
computer systems, change management, national programme for it
abstract
GP computing is the product of a decade of development by the
users. These amateur experts continue to support and expand the
systems. The National Programme for IT will centralise and unify the
systems we use. The expertise will disappear and the systems will be
less user friendly. We are in great danger that these changes will
make the computer systems less usable, less useful and more
frustrating than they already are.
Br J Healthcare Comput Info Manage 2004; 21(2): 41–2.
