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Thread #169732   Message #4195596
Posted By: Rain Dog
17-Jan-24 - 03:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: Belief in Technology
Subject: RE: BS: Belief in Technology
Thanks for those links MaJoC the Filk.

The following story does not appear to have had a lot of coverage.

From the BBC 24th July 2014

Government 'loses £700m NHS IT legal battle with Fujitsu'

"Taxpayers could be hit with a bill for up to £700m after the government reportedly lost a legal battle with Fujitsu over a failed NHS IT system.

The case was heard in secret but the arbitrator is thought to have found in favour of the Japanese IT giant.

Legal arguments are now thought to be continuing over the size of the damages the company will receive.

Fujitsu and the Cabinet Office both refused to comment, after the story appeared in The Daily Telegraph.

The Fujitsu Connecting for Health contract was part of the £12bn NHS national programme for IT, large parts of which have had to be abandoned at a cost estimated by the National Audit Office to be £2.7bn.

Fujitsu won the contract - to digitise patient records in the South of England - in 2002 but it was terminated in 2008, after disputes over changes, including a new system for electronically displaying and storing X-rays."

And

"Companies agree to go to arbitration, where hearings are held behind closed doors, to prevent "reputational damage" and save on legal bills, a legal source said.

Such is the secrecy surrounding these cases that the parties are even prevented from revealing where the hearings were held."