Recent Cyberattack and its Impact on the Health System: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2021-05-18
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Stephen Donnelly (FF), Wicklow

The latest position is as follows. In order to bring all HSE services back, the current estimate is that it is going to take several weeks as these services and devices are gone through one by one. However, at the same time, there are certain priority areas which are being focused on, and these include radiology, radiation oncology, patient administration systems and the voluntary hospitals. The rationale for the voluntary hospitals is that not all but some of them were better protected with their stand-alone systems. It is our hope that, in the coming days, some of the more urgent and time-sensitive systems, such as NIMIS, which is the radiology system, will come back online, if not fully, then partly, and sometimes it is site-by-site. They will be coming back online in the coming days.

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Sitting date: 2021-05-18