Appointments have had to be rescheduled and patient care has been affected in five hospitals in Ontario, Canada as a result of a cyberattack on shared service provider TransForm.
Five hospitals in Erie St. Clair, Ontario, formed TransForm, a not-for-profit shared services organization, to handle their accounts payable, supply chain, and IT.The service provider said in a statement yesterday that a cyberattack is causing an outage in their IT systems.
Patients who have appointments in the next few days may need to reschedule at a later time, according to a news statement from TransForm. As of right now, the organization claims to be looking into the origin and extent of the problem and has not yet established read more Cyberattack on health services provider impacts 5 Canadian hospitals.
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