Britain | Computers and the health service
Terminal care
The world's biggest government IT project is working rather well—but the biggest obstacle is convincing doctors to use it
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FORGET Britain's plan for a national identity-card scheme. For social significance and political sensitivity, it is dwarfed by Connecting for Health (CFH), a planned information-technology revolution in the National Health Service.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Terminal care”
From the July 23rd 2005 edition
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