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Surgery should be available this weekend after hospital hack

No evidence to suggest that the privacy of patient information has been breached
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Since Wednesday morning at 8, all 24 Northeastern Ontario hospitals have been impacted by IT challenges, caused by a zero-day virus, as in a virus with no previous patches or solutions.

As a preventive measure, all systems were put on downtime, successfully avoiding the dissemination of the virus says a news release from Health Sciences North.

As a result, 21 of the 24 Northeastern Ontario hospitals have seen their main electronic medical record system, Meditech, put on downtime.

The electronic medical record system for cancer programs in 12 hospitals, Mosaiq, is on downtime.

Ten hospitals have their medical imaging system on downtime.

Four hospitals have their email and servers for back office impacted.

At HSN, about 75 per cent of the systems are impacted by the downtime. HSN is working to begin restoring critical systems by tomorrow and planning to re-schedule cancelled chemotherapy and radiation treatments this weekend.

We have no evidence to suggest that the privacy of patient information has been breached.