Key Takeaways Health care facilities’ ability to provide patient care can be threatened by large-scale telecommunication outages, requiring providers to build additional redundancy into their own infrastructure. In the months and years following major outages, health care institutions have taken steps to mitigate the threat of service disruption to patient care. Many of these users were health care providers and organizations, as well as patients trying to access health care. For complex critical systems, like health care, that rely on telecoms [ ], interconnectivity facilitates seamless and efficient data sharing across a network of health system partners. For health care organizations, using third-party services carries an inherent risk: tech disruptions that can’t be addressed in-house.

Source: CBC News February 03, 2026 20:41 UTC