Not entirely related, but UK's NHS holds a crown for (probably) biggest IT project failure ever. It took 11 years and £9.8b to reinvent patient record system.
At least they can finally sell the patient history to third parties.
"At least they can finally sell the patient history to third parties"
Not sure your sarcasm is all that clear. To those not aware the UK government is passing this off as a way to improve your care within the NHS via centralised records. They have made it opt-out and have sent out a confusing leaflet that leads the reader to believe their care will suffer if they opt-out of selling patient records.
Records are already centralised within the NHS. What is happening is the government is setting up a free for all with easily de-anonymised records being sold off to third parties (read: private health providers and insurance companies).
At least they can finally sell the patient history to third parties.