If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it – but what about UK’s ‘digital by default’ dream?

Good story in The Register about massive Govt. IT spending on legacy systems, including on one that debuted in 1973!

At edgeNEXUS we know all about innovation and digital strategy, already responsible for load balancing a huge amount of the country’s Electronic Patient Records systems through our work with superb partners like Oasis and EMIS. We’re really pleased to see more and more NHS organisations utilising us for load balancing applications across their estates, benefiting from working hand in hand with a British vendor able to deliver real cost-efficiencies.

Nearly half a trillion pounds in tax and other revenues lining the UK government’s coffers every year are processed by decades-old IT systems – and the National Audit Office is worried.

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