Abstract
Britain's 10-year project to create an electronic patient record system for some 50 million people registered on the National Health System is one of the biggest, and at £6.1 billion, one of the most expensive IT projects the world has seen. It is also one of the most controversial, due mainly to perceptions about the vulnerability of patient records to unauthorised access and abuse. The UK's National Audit Office has announced that it will investigate the National Programme for IT in the National Health Service, and publish its findings next summer. Infosecurity Today posed a number of questions about how the NHS plans to capture, clean and safeguard patients' data, and asked a critic of the project, Cambridge University's Ross Anderson, to give his views on the NHS's answers.
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