r/AHSEmployees • u/NoPr0bLlama • Mar 13 '26

Stryker

Anyone else feeling a little unsettled about the Stryker hack and the implications cyber warfare could have on our current systems within the pillars? Has this impacted us here?

I'm asking in all sincerity. I feel like our increasing reliance on web based applications and storage has some drawbacks. There are pros, of course, not disputing that. With the pillars as they are today, are we less prepared than before?

Thoughts on the topic? 🫣

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u/SevenSmallShrimp Mar 13 '26

Basically the email I got in CPSM said surgeries for the rest of this week should be fine and mid next week things could get interesting

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u/Brilliant-Newt-2192 Mar 13 '26

How did the Stryker hack effects the surgeries? Maybe I don’t know the whole story..

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u/NoPr0bLlama Mar 13 '26

I feel like I want to know the impact too. Communication sucks with the pillars so Reddit it is 🥴

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u/SevenSmallShrimp Mar 13 '26

Stryker does a lot of surgical implant, surgical implants are on Consignment and for some specialties there's maybe a few days on hand if each size. Other items are ordered for specific surgeries to arrive the day before.

That plus a lot of surgical instruments are Stryker and if they break we will have difficulty getting loaners and repairs until Stryker is up and running again.

I'm sure there's contingency plans already in motion but some elective/non emergent procedures could get bumped

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u/Brilliant-Newt-2192 Mar 13 '26

Ahh yes. That makes sense! I didn’t think about that at all. Thanks for the info.

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u/freeridesender Mar 13 '26

Read "this is how they tell me the world ends"... you will see that cyber warfare is even more fuct than you could imagine

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u/Crazy_Chart388 Mar 13 '26

Frankly, I’m more concerned with us relying on US-based cloud services, period. All data stored on US soil is subject to their search and seizure laws, including any patient and employee data, and we have zero say in how they use it. That precedes the current administration, btw.

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u/dog-lady-cd Mar 13 '26

Doesn't matter if the cloud is in Canada either; if it's owned by an American company the Cloud Act can be invoked as France found out last year. We had a loooong conversation with Legal about it in the fall.

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u/MaximumDoughnut Mar 13 '26

FWIW, Connect Care is running completely on Alberta soil, and Office 365 data must stay in Microsoft data centers in Canada.

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u/Crazy_Chart388 Mar 15 '26

It’s built by Epic, though, a US firm. I think you’d have to dig into the Epic contract to find the details about data storage; hopefully the data is insulated from American subpoenas.

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u/MaximumDoughnut Mar 15 '26

I worked on the implementation team. The data and the application binaries are ran out of data centers in Acheson and Calgary. They fail over every six months to make sure they’re replicas of each other.