Portugal Swaps Its Two-Decade-Old Surgery-List System for an AI Platform on 1 August, as Doctors Warn of a Cosmetic Fall in the Queues
On 1 August Portugal shuts down SIGIC, the 20-year-old system that managed surgical waiting lists, and moves every record to a new AI-driven platform, SINACC. The government calls it a transparency upgrade; the Ordem dos Médicos and the PS warn it could shrink the backlog on paper without treating a
