A new report has revealed that three quarters of healthcare CIOs lack confidence in the UK government to deliver innovative IT services.

The report comes as the government seeks to generate efficiencies from public sector services through IT innovation, this has included a policy of being digital-by-default and moving from paper to digital records.

A report titled Use of New Technologies in the NHS by Xirrus found that 74 per cent of respondents said that they were either ‘not very confident’ or ‘not confident at all’ in the government’s potential to deliver healthcare innovation from IT.

The report found that respondents were concerned about the process of IT integration, how data is to be shared and the standardisation of data.

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