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425 11. On 15 August 2018, the Committee made a site visit to the SingHealth
Academia
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building (the “
Academia”), located at 20
College Road, Singapore. There, the Committee was given an overview of (i) the SingHealth Electronic Medical Records System (the “
EMR System”), and (ii) SingHealth’s IT network and security measures as they existed before the Cyber Attack.
12. The Committee also held three Pre-Inquiry Conferences (“
PIC”) on 7, 15, and 28 August 2018. The purpose of the PICs was for the Solicitor-General to update the Committee on the progress of investigations, and for interested parties to take directions from the Committee on administrative and procedural matters before the commencement of the hearings.
4 CONDUCT OF THE INQUIRY 13. Hearings commenced on 28 August 2018,
and were held over a total of 22 days spread over four tranches a)
28 August 2018; b) Between 21 September and 5 October c) Between 25 October and 14 November 2018 3
; and d)
30 November 2018. The Academia is part of the SingHealth Academy. It is an education and research centre which has been designed to facilitate interconnectivity among clinical scientist, researchers,
pathologists, educators and medical students.
In this period, hearings were conducted on 21 and 24-28 September 2018, and on 1, 2, and 5 October
2018. In this period, hearings were conducted on 25, 26, 29, and 31 October 2018, and on 1, 2, 5, 9, and 12-
14 November 2018.