Healthcare Giant Faces IT Nightmare 342
Joan writes "Kaiser Permanente, the largest HMO in the U.S., has spent about $4 billion on an unreliable electronic medical record system that is impacting patient care, according to a 722-page internal report revealed by Computerworld. The CIO resigned after the news came out, and CEO George Halvorson is telling the media that the goal is an alarmingly low 99.5% uptime and that all the problems are really just power outages. Yesterday, Slashdot covered a story about the possibility that the NHS in the UK could now claim the 'biggest IT disaster' prize, but Americans, fear not: so far, the Brits are running a much more efficient failure at $24,000 per physician per year, while America's KP is spending $76,920 per physician, per year on its failing project."
maybe they can merge (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they can merge the two projects (the Britain and the KP project) for greater efficiencies.
well this obviously can't be right (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Go USA! (Score:2, Funny)
Jim
Name of the software? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:maybe they can merge (Score:4, Funny)
Re:maybe they can merge (Score:5, Funny)
He didn't mention the synergies that merging the two products would bring to the core competenancies of both organizations.
Now that I have, can I get the job?
Re:Go USA! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:maybe they can merge (Score:3, Funny)
How is that different from how we do it now?
Re:4 BILLion?!?!? (Score:3, Funny)
A couple of their secretaries upgraded to Vista.
Re:well this obviously can't be right (Score:5, Funny)
Re:maybe they can merge (Score:3, Funny)
In other words, it will suck. I should get the job.
Re:Woo-Hoo! (Score:3, Funny)
You mean you transcend dental medication?
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