System outages reported in some public hospitals, health facilities in Singapore

Over the past six weeks, system interruptions have been reported in some public hospitals and healthcare facilities under the National Healthcare Group and the National University Health System, leading to delays in appointments and longer wait times.

The first reported outage occurred on 27 August; 26 IT applications, including EMR, appointment, pharmacy and laboratory systems, were down across 17 government-run health facilities.

A second,…