Computers and the health service: Terminal care.
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...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 376; pp. 52 - 54 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
7/23/2005
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