N.S. family wants answers about baby’s death before new medical records system rollout – CBC
IWK staff said ultrasound referrals were lost during system switchover, family says
May 05, 2026
A family from Ostrea Lake, N.S., says they are concerned the province is expanding a new electronic medical records system this weekend when they still don’t know if it contributed to the death of their unborn baby.
However, the CEO of the IWK Health Centre in Halifax says there have been no serious patient harms since the records system was launched at the children’s hospital in December.
Cassidy Horne was just four weeks away from her due date when her daughter, Arabella, died in January.
For a month leading up to her loss, Horne and her doctor were worried that the baby had stopped growing.
Her doctor sent in at least two referrals to the IWK for an ultrasound, but the family says they were told by hospital staff that the referrals were lost during the switchover to the new system that launched in December at the IWK Health Centre.
