Forgive my ignorance but with the UK government being very bullish with enforcing its (in some places google influenced) ideology upon the NHS. My interest in such matters has suddenly piqued.<p>What are these Health Care software systems? Are they distributed CRUD systems between different locations and actors? Are they event driven systems that push a leaner, more efficient process through the health care system? Are they big data &#x2F; AI products for the macro that identify patterns to help policy, planning, budgets or micro to help as early warning for identify suspicious patterns in areas, surgeries or even an individuals monitoring?<p>I can see software being incredibly helpful, I can also see it being thoroughly expensive and intensive if the NHS has to go through a multi-million-pound multi-year tending process that is almost immediately invalidated by factors such as it&#x27;ll need customising so heavily it&#x27;ll take years to actually tailor correctly, all medical records will need migrating making the entire system redundant before it starts, it has to work across all trusts at once, all patients have to consent etc.<p>I want to see this help. Software can really benefit everyone, but I fear we are heading for a horrific car crash of &#x27;enterprise&#x27; Health Care IT sucking money out of wards and doctors away from patients.<p>Someone convince me otherwise :)