Tyler Kula reports:
Bluewater Health, hardest hit by a cyberattack on five Southwestern Ontario hospitals last fall, had a relatively dated system for storing and sharing patient information at the time, Bluewater Health’s board chairperson says.
“It did make a difference,” said Margaret Dragan, about the hospital group’s 20-plus-year-old hospital information system that’s been eyed for an update since 2013.
Other hospitals in Chatham-Kent, Leamington and Windsor affected by the ransomware attack, detected Oct. 23, via shared supply and technology systems provider TransForm Shared Service Organization, already were using a newer Oracle Cerner hospital information system at the time, Dragan said.
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