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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 (404)	5/23/1998 4:11:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 618

[HEALTHCARE] 'Year 2000 bug crisis hits UK health service ' by Dan Sabbagh, Computing UK national health service systems were placed on the critical list by a government auditor this week, after health trusts warned that clinical equipment may not be fixed in time for the millennium. The warning came in a National Audit Office (NAO) survey, and has sparked calls for more NHS funds. However the government has continued to insist that the bug be fixed from existing budgets, which some fear could affect patient services. The NAO said that 15 per cent of NHS trusts "were not confident" of their clinical equipment functioning normally in 2000. One in 10 NHS trusts was "not confident" that its computer systems would make the grade. ... Critics are concerned that the bug will have a major knock-on effect on patient services. ... In response to the report, the NHS Executive told trusts and health authorities that Year 2000 is the "highest non-clinical priority". ... webserv.vnunet.com

To: John Mansfield who wrote (404)	5/23/1998 4:13:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 618

Army confident about Year 2000 fix APRIL 29, 1998 . . . 11:22 EDT BY BOB BREWIN (antenna@fcw.com) VAIL, Colo. -- The Army does not face any "major crises" in fixing Year 2000 date problems in its computer systems on time, according to Miriam Browning, the Army's director of information management. "I'm an optimist on Y2K," Browning said in a speech here at the semiannual Program Status Review conference held by the Army Small Computer Program office. The Army should be able to fix computer systems that are embedded in weapons as well as standard Army management information systems, Browning said. The Army also expects to take care of interfaces between Army systems to ensure that any data corrupted by the millennium bug does not pass from one system to another. But Browning said he was worried about Year 2000 problems in interfaces between Defense Department systems and those operated by civilian agencies, such as the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. fcw.com