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Hospital continues to grapple with IT issues following major outage last week

Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre is still dealing with some IT issues following a major computer outage last week. On Friday, the Hospital's cooling system failed, resulting in a rise in temperature in their data centre.
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Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre is still dealing with some IT issues following a major computer outage last week.

On Friday, the Hospital's cooling system failed, resulting in a rise in temperature in their data centre. 

The hospital's Senior Director of Informatics, Dawn Bubar says that rise in temperature damaged the two main controllers, resulting in a 36-hour shutdown of their data centre. 

She says there was no impact to patient care, although services were a bit delayed. 

Bubar adds that they've had their data centre up and running for more than 12 years and calls this an isolated incident.


The shutdown also affected the data systems at other hospitals around the region. 

Bubar says the only issue they are still facing is connecting to the diagnostic image archives.

She adds that they should have a solution to that problem by the end of day Monday.

(TBT News)

 





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