Just over a month The Seville Regional Prosecutor’s Office has made the decision that there is no crime All of this is in the complaint filed against the Andalusian Health Department on charges of deleting mammograms. finally … As the Ministry of Health announced after the complaints, this is not true There was no manipulation From medical tests.
The Regional Prosecutor’s Office of Seville decided to archive the proceedings due to “He sees no evidence that discovery crimes were committed Revealing secrets and computer harms” a few days after the association, which denounced the failure of the breast cancer screening program, announced that images from these women’s mammograms had been “deleted.”
Some of these women decided to go to the prosecution, which was already investigating what happened with the failure of the program, which caused some women to not be informed. To report this wrongful deletion of photos. Now the courts confirm that this deletion never happened, that there was no crime, and that what happened was a failure due to system saturation.
Later, the patients’ advocate also joined this complaint, saying that he was aware that “The documents could have been destroyed Of patients containing confidential and sensitive information about their health and treatment, among other mammograms.
All of this, according to what they denounced, could constitute crimes of breach of trust in keeping documents, harming privacy, and lack of integrity in exercising public office. However, the Attorney General’s Office is very clear about that None of these crimes occurred and the proceedings are closed.
In a decree signed last November 26, submitted by the ABC of the Vocento group, the theory and accusations formulated by the Association of Women Suffering from Breast Cancer of Seville were completely dismantled.Imam, It asked the Public Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the “alleged destruction” of diagnostic tests by the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) and the interference or copying of SAS servers and platforms “in order to avoid destruction or tampering” with evidence.
There is no evidence
In the Archive Decree, an eight-page text, it is made clear that no “Direct evidence of intentional manipulation The downfall of the servers was the result of their saturation, as they were unable to provide access to the number of requests to view images corresponding to the citizen service unit.”
Moreover, it is clear that the clinical data contained in the medical history of the complainants “It is complete, original and consistent.”“There is no technical or documentary evidence of intentional deletion, human error, or a decision contrary to established clinical procedures.”
All this is emphasized “No items were found indicating change, deletion or modification Your mammography report, nor has the performance of the initially planned ultrasound been unjustifiably prevented.”
The investigation was limited to determining whether a fall or failure of the SAS computer system could affect its safety, availability or health For clinical data stored in security systems, RIS/PACS or other associated platforms; We also check whether there has been unauthorized access, modifications or changes to medical records, diagnostic reports or image files of specific patients, in order to determine whether these events could constitute a criminal offence.
The investigation notes that “it is not unlikely that a system failure” could have temporarily compromised the availability of clinical data. There is an abundance of this theory that the computer system of the Andalusian Health Department has fallen “It had an exclusive operational impactWithout affecting the integrity, validity or traceability of clinical records.”
In fact, the Attorney General’s decision specifies that it was precisely the “avalanche of requests” that occurred after a failure in a breast cancer screening program was discovered, which made the server that provided this screening service The “citizen viewer” will be satisfied and stop working Naturally.” However, this problem “did not affect the PACS system, nor the integration of new images, nor the work of health professionals, but focused on the aforementioned Citizen Service module ‘Viewer for Citizens’.”
The Public Prosecution investigated several complaints submitted by women who, according to Amama, contacted them to report the diagnostic tests they were able to access via the Click Salud application.”Disappeared or erased The radiologist’s name or the document reported has disappeared.
In addition, a woman said that the signatory received a phone call from a health worker who informed her that data would be deleted from the Derayah software that is used in the Andalusian public health system as support for health workers in the electronic medical record.
But the investigation concluded: “It has not been demonstrated that rescheduling the test or switching from ultrasound to mammography is the result of an incorrect decision or lacks a clinical basis.” In fact, the Public Prosecutor’s Office insists that the checks conducted indicate this “The proceedings were recorded accordingly to established care protocols and within usual test administration parameters, without observing outside interference that would modify or order suppression of any test.”
The file comes after a comprehensive investigation, according to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, into the operation of the programWhich is used in the Andalusian Health Department As a support to the electronic medical history and diagnostic imaging software, the entire care process related to radiological tests is performed.
Also reviewed were the “Pacs system”, in charge of Philips Ibérica, which specializes in managing and displaying different types of medical images associated with radiological studies for patients, as well as ClickSalud, the virtual service of the public health system of Andalusia whose function is to provide a viewer of the summarized clinical history.