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Chaos Career Progression Theory: A Strategic Framework for Recruitment and Retention in Digital Health Transformation
The Chaos Career Progression Theory (CCPT) is a modern framework for workforce planning, introduced to TransForm Shared Service Organization in the context of digital health transformation across regional hospitals and community healthcare providers. CCPT recognizes the unpredictable and non-linear nature of career development and offers strategic insights for attracting and retaining top talent in healthcare […]
Press Release: TransForm SSO Announced As a 2025 CIO Awards Canada Winner
September 27, 2025 — IDC Canada and CIO have named TransForm Shared Service Organization as a CIO Awards Canada 2025 award winner. Annually, IDC and CIO recognize the tech world’s most innovative organizations and accomplished leaders. “We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 CIO Awards Canada. This prestigious award celebrates exceptional Canadian […]
Media Release: Update #2 on Global Outage at Regional Hospitals
As a region, we continue to make great progress restoring systems following a CrowdStrike global IT outage, which has been confirmed NOT to be a cyber-attack. The majority of clinical systems have been restored and remaining non-clinical systems will be completed over the weekend. While wait times have been reduced significantly due to these efforts, […]
Media Release: Update on Global Outage at Regional Hospitals
Patients should expect delays in service and potential appointment cancellations following a Microsoft/CrowdStrike global IT outage, which has been confirmed NOT to be a cyber-attack.TransForm, the hospitals’ regional IT service provider, is working diligently on restoration efforts while staff in the hospitals use downtime procedures, including paper charting.What to expect:Emergency Department: Expect longer wait times […]
TransForm Shared Service Organization Announces Transition of Supply Chain Services to Mohawk Medbuy
Windsor, Ontario – March 28, 2024 – TransForm Shared Service Organization (TSSO) www.transformsso.ca is pleased to announce that, in partnership with its member hospitals (Bluewater Health, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Erie Shores HealthCare, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare, and Windsor Regional Hospital), an agreement has been reached to divest its supply chain services to Mohawk Medbuy (MMC) www.mohawkmedbuy.ca, […]
TransForm celebrates first go-live connecting Epic and Meditech sites to Ontario eHub
This week, TransForm SSO celebrated its first go-live connecting Epic and Meditech sites to the Ontario eHub Health Information Exchange (HIE) – a significant milestone connecting all three hospital Health Information Systems (HIS). In partnership with Project AMPLIFI, two additional Oracle Health hospitals were connected with Long Term Care (LTC) homes via the Ontario eHub […]
Media Release: Update on Cyber Attacks at Regional Hospitals
Bluewater Health, Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Erie Shores HealthCare, Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare and Windsor Regional Hospital, along with our shared service provider TransForm Shared Service Organization, would like to provide an update on their recent cyberattack and restoration of services.We understand this has been an incredibly challenging period for our communities. This criminal cyberattack has affected […]
Press Release: Patient Transitions from Hospitals to Long-Term Care Take a Major Step Forward
Southwestern Ontario, November 30, 2023 – TransForm Shared Service Organization, in collaboration with Project AMPLIFI, marks a significant milestone in healthcare integration with the successful implementation of two-way patient data exchange between hospitals and Long-Term Care homes. This milestone represents go-lives for 36 hospital sites across 20 hospital organizations. Known as the Ontario eHub initiative, […]