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Hospitals, Doctors in Confusion as State Health Service Computer System Fails

Portugal’s SNS state health service computer system has been down since 10am today in several local health units (hospitals/ health centres, etc.), preventing doctors from issuing prescriptions and accessing patients’

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According to the National Federation of Physicians (Fnam), the Medical Electronic Prescription (PEM) "is completely down" and doctors cannot pass "one single prescription". The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is also unavailable

·Paço de Arcos, Portugal
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Failure is registered at national level and is forcing the suspension of medical consultations, examinations and treatments.

·Lisboa, Portugal
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Several users are reporting flaws in accessing the SNS 24 application, where error messages and warnings emerge that the revenue service is temporarily unavailable.

·Lisboa, Portugal
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The SNS computer system has been down since around 10:00 a.m. this Monday in several local health units, preventing doctors from passing prescriptions and accessing the electronic processes of patients, alerted Fnam this Monday. RTP found that the failures are registering at the national level. The content System of the SNS below prevents doctors from passing prescriptions and consult processes appears first in the National Sheet.

·Lisboa, Portugal
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The SNS computer system has been down since around 10:00 today in several local health units, preventing doctors from passing prescriptions and accessing the electronic processes of the patients, alerted Fnam today. "About 25 minutes ago we are without computer system and this is probably even national, because I already have reports from ULS São João, ULS de Matosinhos, ULS de Medio Ave" and more reports continue to arrive, said the agency Lusa…

·Funchal, Portugal
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Sapo broke the news in Lisboa, Portugal on Monday, October 19, 2026.
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