[medinformatics] Microsoft Exec Blasts Scottish IT Health Reofrm

[Medical Informatics News]

Microsoft’s outgoing director for Scotland and new sales director for Europe, Gordon
McKenzie, has spoken out against progress so far in Scottish health IT reform, calling the country’s current systems
inefficient and fractured. According to an article in the U.K.’s online newsletter e-Health Insider,
McKenzie was quoted as saying: “NHS Scotland is still operating in a piecemeal way. Royal Bank of Scotland has
100,000 employees and one IT system. The NHS in Scotland is about the same size, but there are 14 NHS trusts and even
within each trust there may be four different systems. They even have different email addresses.”

In a separate article in*The
Scotsman, McKenzie was quoted as saying: “To deliver the next generation of healthcare it will need
technology not yet funded or designed. They still have to do things that England has done three years ago.”



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