Health Sciences North president and CEO Dominic Giroux said “good progress” has been made in restoring the system infected by why he called a “zero day virus” this week.
“Good progress has been made overnight and this morning by the IT team @HSN_Sudbury to plan for the progressive restoration of systems that are on downtime,” he tweeted this morning. “We are on track to begin partial restoration of some systems later today.”
As a preventive measure against the virus, systems at HSN were put on downtime in order to avoid dissemination of the virus.
"We have no evidence to suggest that privacy of patient information has been breached," Giroux tweeted on Thursday.
A total of 24 Northeastern Ontario hospitals have been impacted by the virus.
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 had their email and servers for back office impacted.
North Bay Regional Health Care said in an email that it was impacted by the technical difficulties at HSN.
Communications specialist Lindsay Smylie Smith said NBRHC has the largest satellite chemotherapy clinic of the North East Cancer Centre at HSN. As a result of the technical difficulties, NBRHC’s satellite chemotherapy clinic was cancelled Wednesday, Thursday and today.
“To minimize the impact on our patients, arrangements have been made to reschedule these patients for treatment this weekend,” she said in her email. “NBRHC and HSN have a strong partnership, and together we are working to ensure we can continue to provide the best care to our patients.”
At this time, no other clinical areas of NBRHC have been impacted, she said. All programs and services remain open to the community.
HSN spokesperson Jason Turnbull said the virus is not a ransomware attack on the hospital.
