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The nation's Smart Nation initiative has been falling in recent days, with all the wave of cybercrime implicating the public health system and iTunes fraud.
Thursday, the Ministry of Health initiated a temporary measure of blocking all computers staff of SingHealth institutions have access to the Internet. The disconnection of the Internet was completed yesterday in the medical institutions of the National Health Care Group and the National Academic Health System, which resulted in the unavailability of computer system connections that require the Internet [19659003]. pay for medical treatment and medication with credit cards and NETS. An image posted on Reddit showed a notice set up at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital stating that cash payment is preferred now that the Internet has been disconnected. Cashless payments are also not available at Yishun Community Hospital and Admiralty Medical Center
Of course, you do not have to pay immediately in medical facilities – patients can pay their bills in other ways. People who still believe in the use of the Internet for SingHealth services can pay by Zoom, AXS or on hospital websites.
Other disruptions include longer wait times for consultations, test results, delays in MediSave account verification claims.
Disadvantage? Absolutely. But perhaps needed after 1.5 million SingHealth patients have had their data compromised in Singapore's biggest cyber attack so far. SingHealth's computer systems – including hospitals, national specialty centers and polyclinics – were maliciously attacked on July 4, but were not revealed to the public until last Friday, July 20.
NRIC numbers, addresses, gender, ethnicity and birth dates of 1.5 million patients who visited SingHealth's outpatient clinics and specialty polyclinics from May 1, 2015 to the day of the violation. Of these, 160,000 patients in the system had medication records.
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