National Health IT outages

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Public hospitals and health centres have been several hours without access to the SNS computer system, risking surgery and consultancy. Problem caused by software update.

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The SNS reporting system was completely inoperative during the night.

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Several hospitals had their operations affected this Thursday due to a failure in the National Health System's computer system. According to a source at Famalicão Hospital, the problem was detected in the early hours of the morning and persisted until early this morning, when the computer system was updated nationwide […]

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In many units m tells n can access the patient’s file to carry out tests or medical examinations.

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The Unified Health System (SUS)'s internal computer system has been down in several hospitals since this morning. According to SIC Notícias, which reported the information, doctors have no access to patients' medical records, making it impossible to perform tests and write new prescriptions. This situation could also put appointments and surgeries at risk. (updating) The content "SUS computer system" below. Appointments and surgeries at risk fi…