…attributed in part to the past effort to fully computerize the UK’s National Health Service.

According to the Bristol Post, a coroner in charge of the inquest into the death of Samuel Starr, aged three, indicated in a narrative verdict that, “Due to the failure of the [Royal United] hospital's outpatient booking system, there was a five month delay in Samuel being seen and receiving necessary treatment.”  It is very rare for a coroner to criticize a hospital IT system so directly…

http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/uk-coroner-fingers-nhs-computer-system-in-toddlers-death/