What happens next? Looking ahead to 2009

10 February 2009

The newspapers may be full of doom and gloom about the economy, but members of the Microsoft UK healthcare team and our healthcare partners are surprisingly upbeat about the prospects for NHS IT. Improved efficiency, a new interest in virtualisation and new services for patients are predicted for 2009; along with a starring role for Wales. Paul Curran also picks up some resolutions for NHS IT managers.

John Coulthard, director of healthcare, Microsoft UK: Will we be hunkering down and hoping that the chill blast of the recession is no worse than the chill blast of winter? Or will we - as I suspect - be working harder, faster and smarter to keep up?

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