According to Snami, the general practitioner union, the SISS (Regional Social and Health Information System) “has been in total crash since Monday”. It means that for four days it has been impossible for family coats to issue dematerialized prescriptions for drugs or tests, to fill out sick certificates, or to consult electronic health records. “Especially in the morning hours, sometimes even in the early afternoon, none of the functions are available, you can’t do anything. An unworthy thing, a shame. We are used to crashes, but partial ones; a block this big hasn’t happened for years” , the regional president of Snami (and of the Order of Doctors of Milan, in the photo) Roberto Carlo Rossi reported to Adnkronos Salute yesterday, on the fourth day of Siss “totally unusable”.
According to the Region’s Welfare Directorate, there were disservices, but only yesterday and Tuesday, due to “an IT problem on the national platform which created disservices in many regions” and in ours it “limited the operation of the service of electronic prescription”, also impacting on the “issuing of sick certificates”. “We depend on a platform owned and managed by a company that depends on the Ministry of Economy – the Welfare Councilor Guido Bertolaso anticipated -. We too are victims of a disservice that lies further upstream”. The explanation does not satisfy the opposition: “Lombard mismanagement does not know how to manage the complexity of the system”, thunders Pietro Bussolati of the Democratic Party. In doubt, Fimmg Milano has called a meeting on 2 July “to evaluate protest actions”, explains secretary Anna Pozzi, confessing that “this morning I was unable to send telematic sick certificates, I wrote them on a paper form”. Gi.Bo.
