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Biotech / Medical : Colorado MEDtech, CMED

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To: SC who wrote (229)6/15/1999 5:46:00 PM
From: Paul K  Read Replies (1) of 288
 
"Health-care industry prescription for Y2K is big dose of prevention"

seattletimes.com

"... In part, health care seems more vulnerable to Y2K problems because it depends on technology. A patient faces a computer at every point in the hospital, from admitting to the machines used in treatment to the billing systems.

The health system also isn't much of a system: It's fragmented, with pharmaceutical companies, insurers, hospitals, doctors, medical-device manufacturers and the federal government all scrambling to kill the Y2K bug, often with sporadic communication ..."
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