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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 (471)	6/27/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 618

Of growing concern is the impact on health care devices. Setterberg gives the example of a child born in 1995: "It might be a piece of equipment that gives a dosage of a certain kind of a medicine to a five-year-old," he says. "However, it's possible that that piece of equipment will simply shut down, or it would read that that person they're giving information on is 95 years old, perhaps resulting in a different dosage and potentially having an impact on the health of that person." And if medical devices don't work properly and related problems kick in ... and one major hospital is worried. "They expect that there will be patient injury, and they anticipate the possibility of patient death," says Setterberg. "They have said specifically that we will not be ready by the Year 2000." Rx2000 did a survey of health care representatives. "One of the questions we asked them was, 'Do you agree or disagree that the Year 2000 issue has a significant potential to lead to unnecessary deaths in health care?'" says Ackerman. "Now these are some of the people in the trenches working on the issues. Ninety-four percent of them agreed with that." Part of that death risk is the poor job of preparation by most medical device manufacturers. Ackerman says some are even lying to their hospital customers that everything is fine. ... cbn.org