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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (1248)	3/22/1998 5:40:00 PM
From: Quad Sevens	Respond to of 9818

Anyone attending? Not expensive. Would be great to get a report ... ______________________________ Please feel free to forward this message on to others If you are associated with a healthcare association, please forward to your membership Rx2000 Healthcare Y2k SIG (Special Interest Group) Meeting Date: April 8, 1998 Time: 8:30 - 4:00 Meeting Cost: $25 per attendee Location for this meeting: DoubleTree Grand Hotel / Mall of America 7901 24th Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota Hotel Phone: 612-854-2244 Hotel Fax: 612-854-4421 Room Rate: $109 (single or double) Airport shuttle every 30 minutes (5:00 A.M. - 10:00 P.M.), 7 minutes from airport Meeting Agenda: 8:00 Coffee and rolls 8:30 Welcome and introductions 8:45 Overview of Rx2000 Solutions Institute 9:00 Healthcare Year 2000 State of Affairs Kevin Schick, AnswerThink (Formerly of Gartner Group) 9:30 Mini-Presentations: Healthcare Y2k Products Database Joel Ackerman, Executive Director, Rx2000 Solutions Institute Results of Medical Device Assessment (Speaker to be confirmed) Healthcare Y2k Operational/Contingency Planning (Speaker to be confirmed) Healthcare's Y2k Legal Issues John Massopust, esq., Zelle & Larson 11:45 Lunch 1:00 Round Table Discussions 1:45 Round Table Reports 2:45 SIG Future Directions 4:00 Adjourn This first meeting of the SIG is open to all participants in the healthcare industry working on, or concerned about the millennium bug. Payers, providers, suppliers, manufacturers, regulators, etc. are all welcome subject to space limitations. The non-profit Rx2000 Solutions Institute has received many requests to coordinate a national/international forum for bringing together healthcare's "people in the Y2k trenches". The generic Y2k SIGs that many of us participate in are helpful with regards to generic Y2k issues. However, healthcare also has its own set of unique Y2k issues, many of them directly related to quality of care. We don't have enough time or resources to re-invent the wheel or duplicate others' mistakes. We need to learn from and help each other. As a means of sharing healthcare Y2k information, this SIG will complement the current web site and list server provided by Rx2000. It will allow direct one-on-one and group discussion, brainstorming, and information sharing. A key topic for this meeting will be the creation of a shared healthcare year 2000 products database that will benefit all of us. The database is designed to contain information about test processes and test results for medical devices, software products, and other products used within the healthcare industry. Additional topics are being reviewed, and your suggestions are very welcome. No long presentations, no vendor show, no sales pitches. This is intended to be a working session with your peers. Vendors are invited to attend and share their experience, but any overt sales activities will result in their not being permitted to attend future meetings. Attendees at this meeting will set the direction, topics, locations, and approaches for future meetings. Future meetings may be face-to-face, teleconferences, or some combination of both. Space is limited, so please respond ASAP to reserve your place. Please provide the following information by email to info@rx2000.org or by fax to 612-830-0931 Name: Title: Organization: Organization Type (Payer, provider, supplier, Y2k vendor, etc.): Phone: Email: Fax: Mail Address: City: State/Province: Zip/Mail Code Country: Topics you would like addressed by SIG: Preferred location(s) for future meetings: Comments: Email to info@rx2000.org Fax to 612-830-0931 We look forward to meeting all of you! Joel Ackerman, Executive Director Rx2000 Solutions Institute

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (1248)	3/22/1998 6:14:00 PM
From: Quad Sevens	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

CK: C'mon. The impact of 55 million dollars on Amoco's bottom line is miniscule. A little arithmetic shows that this will reduce Amoco's EPS by 8 cents a share in 98. They earned 5.55 per share last year and are expected to earn 4.69 this year. So y2k will have less than a 2% impact on EPS this year. That's negligible compared to oil prices fluctuations, etc. for this oil behemoth--less than statistical noise. Wade