HMOs warn: Delays in providing results may delay the start of treatment Israel today

The Ministry of Health has not published infection data for about three days, patients in critical condition, vaccinated and dying due to a computer malfunction.

Decisions are made and outlines change without any information.

This morning, too, they did not promise that the information would be published.

According to data from the National Health Insurance Fund, 4,500 verified patients are diagnosed per day, ie at the state level, about 50,000 new verified patients are detected per day.

Prof. Zarqa refers to the delay in updating the corona data // Photo: GPO

In addition, the computer failure in the Ministry of Health has in recent days prevented the transfer of the results of laboratory tests to the health funds.

Delay in delivering the results may lead to a delay in the initial provision of preventive care to the adult population and patients with risk factors.

Treatment prevents coronary hospitalizations should be given three to five days from diagnosis, but HMOs report that the delay in delivering the results may even reach four days. 

The delay in transferring the results to the HMOs from the Ministry of Health comes from the external laboratories and not from the HMOs' own laboratories, so the HMOs recommend that insured persons aged 60 and over and risk groups be tested in their testing complexes, and not in Home Front Command complexes.

Clinic of the National Health Fund in Tel Aviv // Photo: Yehoshua Yosef,

One of the funds said: "In complete disarray, we have significant delays, especially in inspections carried out by MDA and the Home Front Command.

All the funds have the same problem, which is in fact a problem in the Ministry of Health in their computing and in the absorption of results made outside the fund. "

The Corona virus' headquarters for the fight against the computer system said: "Due to congestion in the computer system caused by the increasing increase in the daily number of subjects, there have been delays in receiving test results from laboratories to the computer system and transferring them to HMOs.

Corona projector Prof. Salman Zarqa commented on a briefing on a computer system malfunction: "I must say that the data challenges even the Ministry of Health's computer system and the data is not always updated in real time about what is on the Ministry of Health's dashboard and our ability to keep track." "We are doing a lot to upgrade the system. The assumption is that the data does not reflect all the infections in the State of Israel."

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