I've been listening to the coverage recently concerning the NHS and their integrated computer system which isn't exactly integrated. It was a detail I heard this morning that amazed me. Namely, that many NHS hospitals already regularly contain 4 or 5 different on-line systems that can't 'talk' to each other.It'd be like trying to put a multi-disciplinary team together who speak Latin, Chinese, Finnish and Hungarian and expecting them to work seamlessly together.
I thought it worth mentioning in the context of different governmental departments talking (or more specifically- not talking) to each other and how this has been seen as a factor in child protection issues.
There was a debate about it a few days ago on the Today programme. It's quite revealing.
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