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

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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.

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