Valley Health System Year 2000 Project: Impact Analysis also for embedded software
From:
year2000.com
'Year 2000 Impact Analysis
Valley Health System Year 2000 Project
By Jerry Pusey,
Administrative Services Manager,
Valley Health System,
Hemet, CA
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Potential Non-IS Internal Impacts
As stated before, the change from 1999 to the Year 2000 not only impacts the internal Information Systems, interfaces and the platforms they run on but interfaces to external parties such as
banks,
supply warehouses,
insurance companies
third-party payers.
Brandon Childs, Andersen Consulting states "the bigger problems may involve government systems (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) and reimbursement from third-party payers." He continued "You need to look into areas not traditionally part of IS responsibility - like access cards, elevators, security systems and others."
Some other systems areas that we are aware of and must be looked into include
Telephone Switchboard System,
Communications Lines between facilities, i.e., T1 Lines (Telephone Company Facilities),
VHS X-Ray equipment,
CAT Scanners,
MRI's,
Nuclear Medicine Systems,
Fire Suppression Systems,
Air Conditioning Systems,
Dictation Systems,
Paging Systems,
I.V. Pumps,
EKG Monitoring Equipment,
PYXIS Drug Dispensing Units,
Company Vehicles,
Pace Makers, etc.
Many of these are non traditional systems from the IS Perspective, however they have computer chips in them, and utilize some type of date logic, in which no century indicator is contained in the computer chip. '
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