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To: JSI who wrote (22472)	8/20/1998 10:33:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 31646

Relevant for the TAVA/CMED alliance: ' Perhaps worse for health care is its dependence on embedded systems for equipment. Typically a hospital will have hundreds of different products supplied by dozens of vendors, according to Arthur Gross of Albany Medical. Therefore hospitals need for their suppliers to provide Y2K compliant products or come in and test existing ones. While there is no national report card on hospitals, a lot of them are treating Y2K as an emergency situation now. Joel Ackerman of RX2000 Solutions Institute said that many hospitals are planning to have a minimal number of patients on Jan. 1, 2000. The embedded systems used so widely in energy, telecommunications, and health care may be the hardest bugs to find. Gary Easterbrook of Embedded Systems Solutions called them "needles in haystacks." Easterbrook also said that most embedded systems are designed to interrelate, and some are not even designed to be removed. Many are put together in what he called "black boxes." Many designs are specific and can't be replaced by just any chip or "box." For example, the British Broadcasting Company has 50,000 embedded chip systems from 5,000 vendors. David Hall of CARA Corp. added that embedded systems "talk" to each other, and that one might send a bad date to another. "Many people get the 'deer in the headlights' look when you explain to them the potential problems," said Hall. worldnetdaily.com