I mean hospitals in Ontario are all privately run with independent board of directors. The biggest thing we have set up is the “nonprofit” status they all have to have, and the OHIP/single payer setup.
Beyond that, these hospitals that were hit were all “public”. Friend works at the cancer screening for SW Ontario and they’ve all been back to hand charting and filing. Tons of stuff is falling through the gaps, and they’ve been told to expect it to last to the new year.
Oof. That sucks. i thought ontario hospitals ( public ones) were publically funded for operating costs, regardless of OHIP payments for patient billing
They honestly don’t need to. Knowing what I know from friends who work on the healthcare IT systems, the shit has been totally devastatingly out of date in so many ways.
Part of it is planned obsolescence, where you have a perfectly good MRI machine that only works on Windows 95 and isn’t airgapped from the rest of the network. Part of it is just skimping on IT costs, but their security has been Swiss Cheese for a long time.
Most (maybe all) were public healthcare. I wonder if Private hospital owners ever pay hackers to sabotage…
I mean hospitals in Ontario are all privately run with independent board of directors. The biggest thing we have set up is the “nonprofit” status they all have to have, and the OHIP/single payer setup.
Beyond that, these hospitals that were hit were all “public”. Friend works at the cancer screening for SW Ontario and they’ve all been back to hand charting and filing. Tons of stuff is falling through the gaps, and they’ve been told to expect it to last to the new year.
Oof. That sucks. i thought ontario hospitals ( public ones) were publically funded for operating costs, regardless of OHIP payments for patient billing
I mean there’s hundreds to thousands of grants and other ways the govt pays the hospital as well, it’s not just OHIP funded but that’s a large part.
They honestly don’t need to. Knowing what I know from friends who work on the healthcare IT systems, the shit has been totally devastatingly out of date in so many ways.
Part of it is planned obsolescence, where you have a perfectly good MRI machine that only works on Windows 95 and isn’t airgapped from the rest of the network. Part of it is just skimping on IT costs, but their security has been Swiss Cheese for a long time.
That’s awful