Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare Tayfour Campus. (Photo by Mike Vlasveld)Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare Tayfour Campus. (Photo by Mike Vlasveld)
Sarnia

Area hospitals hit with critical technology malfunction on the weekend

Most systems are functioning again at five hospitals in Southwestern Ontario after a critical technology malfunction on Saturday morning.

The hospitals, Erie Shores Healthcare, Windsor Regional Hospital, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare, and Bluewater Health in Sarnia, say it wasn't a hack, and the TransForm Shared Service Organization called it "an extremely rare event."

It caused delays in processing for patient care, including diagnostic imaging.

The vendor is working with technical teams from TransForm to restore all systems, but as of Sunday morning, 80 per cent of impacted systems were restored.

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