
The National Health Fund informed about planned maintenance works on Tuesday, October 13, from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., which may cause difficulties or complete unavailability of the IT systems of the National Health Fund Headquarters, including applications such as eWUŚ, DILO, AP-PKUŚ, Kolejki Centralne, eZWM, CBWiD, Stroke Survey Portal and Arthroplasty Register.
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The National Health Fund carries out regular maintenance of its IT systems to ensure their proper functioning.
The National Health Fund informed about planned maintenance works.
Therefore, on Tuesday, October 13, from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., there may be difficulties in access to the IT systems of the NFZ Headquarters.
The Fund emphasized that during the work, the possibility of complete unavailability of the systems should be taken into account.
What applications may be unavailable?
The National Health Fund informed that during service work, the following may be unavailable: following applications:
eWUŚ (https://ewus.nfz.gov.pl/ap-ewus/)
DILO - Oncological Diagnostics and Treatment System (https://dilo.nfz.gov.pl)
AP-PKUŚ - Processes of Coordinated Provision of Benefits (https://pkus.nfz.gov.pl/ap-pkus/)
Central Railways (https://kolejki-online.nfz.gov.pl/ap-kolce/)
eZWM system (e-order for medical devices) (https://ezwm.nfz.gov.pl/)
CBWiD - Central Database of Applications and Decisions (https://cbwid.nfz.gov.pl/)
Stroke Survey Portal (https://udary.nfz.gov.pl/)
Endoprosthetics Register (https://re.nfz.gov.pl/)
Difficulties may also apply to web services used by the indicated systems.

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