| Sumario: | Connecting for Health, a planned information technology (IT) revolution in Britain's National Health Service, is almost certainly the world's biggest civil IT project. The project involves the creation of a high-capacity network and a national database that can rapidly transfer medical information around the country, and it will facilitate the automation of appointments and prescriptions. According to critics, the project is overambitious and unrealizable, and it poses a threat to medical confidentiality. The current performance of the system and the obstacles to the project's success are discussed.
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