A shared IT services provider and its five Ontario member hospitals say their recovery from a Daixin Team ransomware attack in October could last into December as the group rebuilds its IT network. Meanwhile, the outage will continue to disrupt patient services, including diagnostics and treatments.

TransForm Shared Service Organization and the regional hospitals to which it provides shared IT services – Bluewater Health, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Erie Shores HealthCare, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare and Windsor Regional Hospital – have been struggling since the Oct. 23 attack that disrupted access to electronic health records and other critical systems.