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Tories pledge NHS IT revolution in The Cloud

Posted by admin in Applications on Mon, 10/08/2009 - 11:18
  • The Tories promise an end to bloated, monolithic IT projects
  • Healthcare records will end up in The Cloud
  • Labour cites security concerns about patient confidentiality
  • Microsoft and Google set to benefit?

The Conservative Party is promising an end to bloated IT projects and the ability to access medical records in The Cloud if the Tories win the next General Election.

The Tories have proposed to give people access to look at their data, with the likes of Microsoft or Google hosting the records. Users could even be able to update their own records in a Wikipedia-like style. Every patient would have a username and password and could update their records with information like blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

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