Janil Puthucheary on strengthening IT systems for public healthcare institutions

The Government will continue to review its system design and architecture, and invest in capabilities to strengthen the resilience of its IT systems and reduce disruption at public healthcare institutions. It is also reviewing its downtime and business processes to minimise the impact during outages. Public healthcare institutions have business continuity plans that are activated in case of emergencies. Each institution's business continuity plan is supported by solutions with appropriate functionality and can be used when key applications are not available to allow public healthcare institutions to continue to deliver patient care services. Senior Minister of State for Health Janil Puthucheary said this in reply to an MP's questions in Parliament on Tuesday (Nov 29).