Re: "improve productivity in an organisation severely short of staff"
The initial ones were written by various people.
Academics interested in how (GP) medicine is done, buyers of pharmaceutical information (and one use area for gp systems was for dispensing practices, who needed something like a pharmacy ststem)
And then jobbing GPs with an interest in solving particular problems in their work.
While the records were on a drive in the building, alongside similar information jn larger volumes in paper packets, the threat and security models were fine, thanks.
Moving ask the records for half the country onto two systems at four data centres, and linking that to Dominic Cummings, Tufton St et Al, a little different.
The computer industry has given us its thoughts rather later than Hipocrates wrote down his, and we've been developing them since then, thanks.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
