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Global IT outage disrupts B.C. health-care system (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A global IT outage has caused widespread disruption across multiple industries, including significant issues within the health-care sector in B.C.

The province's Ministry of Health confirmed the disruption is impacting its networks and computers.

In a statement, the ministry said it has implemented "contingency plans" to ensure that health-care services remain operational, and patient care is not disrupted "to the best of our ability."

It is urging people to contact their care providers Friday if they have questions about appointments or services.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

BC needs to have more homegrown cloud infrastructure and to divest from Microsoft

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Agreed. BC pivoted to using US cloud services in 2020; it would make much more sense to spin up cloud hosting instances within the province.

Of course, while that would have avoided the Azure outage, it wouldn’t have done anything against the CrowdStrike issue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"B.C. health-care system"... that thumbnail...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago

It's because you have to leave the province and goto another country to get actual healthcare these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I hope you're all ok out there.