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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ANGELIQUE LEE who wrote (7870)	8/8/1999 10:37:00 PM
From: bearcub	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

you miss the point, angel as well as jim. the problem with the medical system is far more than 'compliant pacemaker printouts.' you are ignoring c.k.houston's excellent research into the re-writing of medical malpractice insurance policies which RULE OUT covering anyone associated with any medical facility who has not received y2k compliant equipment certification. no insurance? no doctors. no doctors? no hospitals admissions. no hospital admissions? no pacemaker implantation surgeries. no pacemaker implantation surguries? dead heart disease patients. get it? you both are looking at the wrong end of the horse here. and the wierdest part is you are doing it on the thread of the one person in our little kingdom of nod who has hollered herself hoarse (c.k.houston) trying to get the AMA, Congress and HMO's to wake up to what the insurance industry is doing to yank the rug out from under the medical practice system in this nation in just the next 140 days. i hear cuba has a pretty good health care system. maybe they don't need insurance down there and they'll accept all our heart diseased pace maker surgical candidates :)

To: ANGELIQUE LEE who wrote (7870)	8/9/1999 12:32:00 AM
From: foobert	Respond to of 9818

software diagnostic tools to interpret and store pacemaker data? You asked, <<<<<<Jim, In my reading in the general media about pacemaker issues I have found that the risk being talked about is: the possibility that software diagnostic tools which are used to interpret and store the data could have a problem with the new century dates, and if the data is incorrectly interpreted or lost or improperly retrieved, that could lead to a host of medical diagnostic problems.>>>> I am not an expert on pacemakers, but I wondered if this type of thing (data retrival from a pacemaker) is done at all. I did a search on pacemakers and found: largnet.uwo.ca It mentions that most pacemakers are implanted into the body. I do not think it would be possible to retrieve data from these units while inside the body. The external ones can be swapped out with another unit while data is being retrieved for analysis. I also did a search of the computer risks forum that talks about matters like this, and found these risks for pacemaker users: catless.ncl.ac.uk catless.ncl.ac.uk This is an old one from 1989 that sort of touches on the topic: catless.ncl.ac.uk Hope this helps. I welcome any additional information on this matter.