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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (228)	3/16/1998 11:39:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 618

Hospitals face big 2000 risk 'By Beverley Head Australia's hospitals are grappling with the year 2000 problem -- some concluding that as many as 60 per cent of their machines might not work properly when the date rolls over. Local testing has identified cardiac defibrillators, ultrasound machines, central monitors and ventilators which exhibit year 2000 failures. <snip> The managing director of Infrastructure Control Services, Mr Tim Murray, predicted half Australia's medical equipment would fail -- either completely or through inaccurate diagnosis. <snip> The chairman of the national panel on clinical engineering for the Institution of Engineers Australia, Mr Bruce Morrison, has established a web site at y2k.gov.au which lists equipment which has been tested. Mr Morrison confirmed that about a dozen of the 200 medical systems tested so far had failed' afr.com.au