Interoperability be damned
"Part of the aim is to encourage new businesses into the market, which is currently dominated by four suppliers – TPP SystmOne, EMIS Web, INPS Vision and Microtest Evolution – and offer care providers greater choice"
Snake-oil sales-cretin: "Choose our fandabbydozy clinical system and it'll make your life wonderful! Guaranteed a billionty one times better than EMIS/SystmOne (others are available) at getting patients in and out faster!"
(small print around 1 point text and in white on white: "This clinical system will barely co-operate with your printers and will certainly never work with any other NHS clinical system outside of manually retyping things between computers. Oh and don't try to install it on anything other than Windows Millenium Edition with an obscure 2005 release of Java and open access to t'interweb.)
There must be a hard interoperability clause in any clinical system approval into the NHS. If it can't talk to the core clinical systems already approved then it doesn't get in the door.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
