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[Carriemac]

Here it is!

I tried to join an online seminary at UCC from the UK and I got a screen saying cancelled due to ransome wear attack - we were so surprised had heard nothing about it . Really really disruptive for the HSE and scary when you consider how much private data they hold.

We are being forced online more and more by so many companies / institutions and therefore will be vulnerable to our personal information being hacked. 😱

I'd say Paul Reid had thought dealing with Covid19 and its fallout was as bad as a day's work could get and then the hacking.

Off topic but am so sad ( and angry ) to see that the Bóthar CEO admits to stealing a lot of money from the charity.
It was a favoured charity of my late grandad, he did some volunteer work for them and he had it as his "No flowers please, donations if desired, to......." charity on his funeral notice.
He'd be so disappointed.

Hi all. Don’t know how I have overlooked these threads so far (waves @Carriemac)

Those of you living outside Ireland at the moment, what are your feelings about the likelihood of being able to visit this summer? We haven’t been back since February last year, parents are elderly so would really love to be able to see them soon...

@Apileofballyhoo

It's particularly shit to hack a country's health service - especially in the middle of a pandemic. Hack a multinational corporation or something. Or don't hack!

Yes. The absolute feckers.

I spent yesterday muttering about the news.
I'm not sure about travel to and from GB this year. We are going to the north late summer to see mother in law, last summer there were a lot of English and Scottish tourists. It seemed too relaxed, but with vaccine we should be able to relax?
Charity funds, hse hackers, crazy dup people, lockdown puppies, housing, weather...where do I begin!

I won't have any choice about travelling home this summer, my mother has been diagnosed with (what I suspect is secondary cancer).

I have been double vaxxed, so I will need PCR tests at £120 a time, we are in a position to do this, God help the less well off.

I’m happy to pay for the PCR tests if required. My main dilemma will they require anyone not fully vaccinated to quarantine. Dh & I have had both jabs. Youngest is unlikely to have had his and is too young to leave here (well he’s old enough but can’t be trusted not to wreck the house/end up in hospital)

My kids are in their twenties, god knows when they will be jabbed
The middle one has had one dose of az as she does hse clinical work, but then it was paused...so dose two is overdue.
I'm happy not to go anywhere on holiday, but visits to elderly relatives aren't holidays. It's frustrating, and impossible to plan.
Plus it's raining again.

@Decorhate there is talk of having a travel bubble in the common travel are between the uk and Ireland - in the Irish times yesterday. I think we’ll be travelling without quarantining, especially if vaccinated.
www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/government-plans-to-open-travel-bubble-with-britain-1.4564566

Also when my danger returned to Dublin from the UK in February her PCR test was free ( she was travelling for essential reasons ) after 5 days she was tested and released form home quarantine . The guards did stop by to check on her and ask her she’d be doing her shopping . Luckily I had booked her a supervalu online slot she could show them .

I guess it's just a crappy coincidence after the HSE hacking, but our internet provider has been hacked so our broadband was down for most of the day.

Does anyone here work in HSE or have someone in hospital at the moment?

Are hospital systems getting up and running? How is contact working?

One of my IL's was taken in to a Dublin hospital at weekend and is now saying don't have a record of them as a patient! So bizarre. Can't visit anyway but as things stand, we don't even know if she came back from surgery!

My daughter says a huge amount of paper records are kept. The really stressful job just now is in records.
My other daughter is waiting for test results, they might end up being repeated.

This is the last thing our hospital staff needed.
They have been through so much since last March.
Heard a doctor from A&E on Brendan O Connor at the weekend.
It's a new low to attack a health system.

Apparently if you know your hospital number, they can get your file more easily. I don't know if this is on discharge letters to gps.
The fact that letters are used in communication might help, a lot of data is in paper form.

But it is the last thing anyone needs.

Well they have confirmed that my relative is in the hospital now at least and has had the surgery. They had her under a different name (?) so it probably was related to some of the systems being down.

I turned up at the hospital for a scan for my daughter this morning to be told everything has been cancelled but they have no way of contacting patients. It’s a nightmare.
I heard someone describing it as liking hijacking a plane of sick people- it’s disgusting and the whole area of cyber security is under resourced.

Secondrow

Not one computer is turned on at the moment in the hospital so everything takes a much longer time.
If your coming in through ED then you are given a temporary hospital number, (unless you definitely know your number for that hospital).
Everything is then hand written, no stickers, no wristbands. Your files cannot be called up from medical records as they need your hospital number so all your previous medical history, diagnosis etc is unknown.

All labs done have to be ferried to and from the wards manually as they can't be looked up as normal.
If looking for a particular blood result, the lab technician can need up to a hour to find them as nothing can be inputted.
X.rays etc have to be printed off instead of the usual look at the them on the pc.
Bed management cannot see where patients are.

It's a nightmare to be honest.

It's so shitty to taget a health system . People could die over this

@tazzy73

Secondrow

Not one computer is turned on at the moment in the hospital so everything takes a much longer time.
If your coming in through ED then you are given a temporary hospital number, (unless you definitely know your number for that hospital).
Everything is then hand written, no stickers, no wristbands. Your files cannot be called up from medical records as they need your hospital number so all your previous medical history, diagnosis etc is unknown.

All labs done have to be ferried to and from the wards manually as they can't be looked up as normal.
If looking for a particular blood result, the lab technician can need up to a hour to find them as nothing can be inputted.
X.rays etc have to be printed off instead of the usual look at the them on the pc.
Bed management cannot see where patients are.

It's a nightmare to be honest.

That's awful. Everything has been massively slowed down and such long delays could really have an adverse on patients' well-being. And as someone said already, medical practitioners have been through so much this past while. What a shitty thing to do.

All the administrative staff who got their vaccine and people moaned are now running around with bundles of noes and files. So lucky they are vaccinated!

@eggandonion

All the administrative staff who got their vaccine and people moaned are now running around with bundles of noes and files. So lucky they are vaccinated!

Exactly!

@tazzy73

Secondrow

Not one computer is turned on at the moment in the hospital so everything takes a much longer time.
If your coming in through ED then you are given a temporary hospital number, (unless you definitely know your number for that hospital).
Everything is then hand written, no stickers, no wristbands. Your files cannot be called up from medical records as they need your hospital number so all your previous medical history, diagnosis etc is unknown.

All labs done have to be ferried to and from the wards manually as they can't be looked up as normal.
If looking for a particular blood result, the lab technician can need up to a hour to find them as nothing can be inputted.
X.rays etc have to be printed off instead of the usual look at the them on the pc.
Bed management cannot see where patients are.

It's a nightmare to be honest.

That's grim.

Not to mention the impact on contact tracing. DBro works in public health as a doc and they have no access to the information systems.

You cannot have any moral to do this to a health system. Even in "normal" times.

Not that hacking or ransom wear is the playground of people with a conscious