SocietyTan Kiat How apologizes for Singapore public healthcare IT outage, calls it preventable

Senior Minister of State for Health Tan Kiat How told parliament that a contracted provider’s failure to apply a required security update caused a nine-and-a-half-hour disruption across Singapore’s public healthcare clusters on Oct. 13. About 4,000 outpatient appointments were rescheduled, and some patients waited up to two hours longer. No related patient-safety incidents were reported.