Staff at UK's massive health service still have interoperability issues with electronic records

UK health professionals remain "skeptical" about electronic patient records, despite the NHS in England achieving more than 90 percent coverage.

They described struggling to access notes and test results from other providers, leading to time-consuming efforts to track down patient information

In a new report, think tank The Health Foundation points out that while successive government have striven to implement electronic patient records (EPRs) in the NHS to improve productivity in the publicly funded services, concern remain the poor implementations are holding back progress.

One of the world's largest health providers, the NHS in England employes around 1.34 million people and runs an annual budget of £188.5 billion ($241 billion). An early attempt to introduce EPR from central government, which launched around 2003, led to the disastrous National Programme for IT, which spending watchdog the National Audit Office said failed to achieve value for money before it ...