Israeli hospitals have been subjected to cyber attacks in recent years, which led to the disruption of their health system (Reuters)
The Israeli Ministry of Health said that a mysterious glitch caused hundreds of Israeli patients to receive the wrong prescriptions over the past few weeks.
Israeli websites, including "Wala", "Israel Hayom" and "Makor Rishon", quoted the ministry as acknowledging that most of the country's hospitals were affected by the mysterious defect that affected the "Chameleon" system of the company of the same name, which hospitals use to prescribe medications to patients.
The Ministry did not completely rule out that a cyber attack was behind the defect that struck most of the country's public and private hospitals, and led to errors in the prescriptions that were randomly distributed to patients or in the doses prescribed for them, but the "Chameleon" company ruled out this possibility, as well as the hypothesis of a defect in its programs. Computerization.
The Ministry of Health promised an investigation, the results of which would be published as soon as possible.
The "Israel Hayom" website talked about a serious defect, and those affected were mainly patients who were admitted to the hospital for a second time during the past two months.
The Ministry says that it does not yet know when the defect began or its exact source, and that it learned of it 10 days ago, but it does not rule out that its beginning goes back two full months.
The Ministry recommended that patients who visited hospitals during the past two months check their prescriptions and medications with doctors.
It is noteworthy that a number of Israeli hospitals were subjected to cyber attacks in recent years, which led to the disruption of their health system for a long period.
Source: Israeli press