A few more 9s problems?
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yomiuri.co.jp
Date suspected in hospital computer error
Yomiuri Shimbun
MITO -- A computer-assisted device that monitors patients' vital signs malfunctioned--possibly as a result of a date-related error--for about five minutes Thursday morning at a general hospital in Ibaraki Prefecture, prefectural government officials said Friday.
The error, which began at 9:09 a.m., was spotted during a test to determine how the system would be affected by the arrival of Sept. 9, 1999--a date which it reads as a series of nines, and which could be interpreted by some computers as a command to shut down. The device, which records the breathing, blood pressure and heart rate of patients, could not record data for the duration of the malfunction.
Although the error did not affect any patients, the prefectural government ordered the hospital, located in the southern part of the prefecture, to further investigate the cause of the trouble.
With the cooperation of the Health and Welfare Ministry, the prefectural government on Thursday ordered 95 medical facilities to fax it reports on any computer problems they may have experienced as a result of the date.
According to the fax report sent by the hospital, a printout of data from the affected computer-assisted device system came out blank for five minutes starting at 9:09 a.m.
home.kyodo.co.jp
Okinawa firefighters' computer zapped by '9999' bug
Firefighters using a computer on Ishigakijima Island in Okinawa
Prefecture found the date set back some 30 years on Thursday in a
computer error blamed on the '9999' bug, fire department officials
said Friday.
The error did not hamper the duties of firefighters at an
emergency command center in the city of Ishigaki and was repaired
Thursday, they said. |
