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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (322)4/25/1998 7:10:00 AM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 618
 
SIM: 'hospital Year 2000 work'

47. Author: David C. Hall ( dhall )
Date: Apr. 13 1:27 PM 1998

A few interesting observations from doing
hospital Year 2000 work:
1. One problem identified at most hospitals
involves the amount of testing necessary.
Usually, the MIS department lacks the
necessary manpower and equipment to properly
accomplish through system testing. A strong
change management process usually does not
exist, nor is there consideration for a staging
area to take a system from testing to
certification to production.
2. An individual, not the Yr2K Project Manager,
should be given responsibility for organizing
and overseeing the testing of all medical
devices. The major problem here is the
deccentralized nature of medical devices.
Without a clear defintion of responsibility,
devices wil get overlooked or not tested
properly.
3. Very few health care institutions have
developed contingency plans and those that do
have them have not tested them for some time.
4. There is serious concern about the ability of
the medical staff to perform manual procedures
if the equipment fails due to Year 2000
problems. It is necessary for every hospital to
develop emergency procedures and train
medical personnel in recognizing Year
2000-induced failures, what manual
procedures must be acocmplished to work around
the failures, and what (if anything) can be done
to reset failed equipment.

If anyone would like to further discuss any of
these observations, feel free to contact me at
any time.
Dave Hall
dhall@enteract.com

year2000.unt.edu
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