Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : INPR - Inprise to Borland (BORL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (2443)	3/22/1999 4:55:00 PM
From: Dennis Nicks	Respond to of 5102

Off Topic (Y2k and medical) That is exactly my point (by the way, I'm in the USA too). The office I consulted for is an office I'd been working with for the past 6 years or so. I gave them the heads up on Y2k about 2 years ago and their office was ready as of January this year, with the exception of a fax machine and an old 486 that needed to be replaced anyway. The worst place I called was was a surgery center that my client used. Not only was their surgery equipment not ready for Y2k, but their entire billing, patient info system was not ready. They were planning on upgrading everything within the next 6 months. It's a pretty small outfit with no technical people on staff. I told my client not to bother scheduling anything with that center until February of next year. I'm also doing an analysis of the risk of revenue collection from insurance companies. I'm currently waiting on a report from Washington State on the Y2k readiness of the insurance companies. This effects my clients electronic billing system and the bottom line. It doesn't matter what % of internal systems are ready if we can't bill for services.. I'm not planning on getting sick in December!! Dennis

To: i-node who wrote (2443)	3/22/1999 10:19:00 PM
From: Graham Wideman	Respond to of 5102

Y2K-ers: I'm not sure if you're in USA or not; Yes I am in US, and in fact my opinion is based partly from Y2K-immersed HMO consultant friends of mine... so again health care industry. According to congressional report, health care is particularly behind, so that shouldn't necessarily be the overall barometer... however my small sample of inside info at government agencies indicates they are also behind. As for "industry", I'd suspect that eg banks are fairly well set as IT is such a visibly central part of their operation (ie: it holds top mgt attention)... in other industries, wherever IT is not reporting to the top, there will have been a recipe for middle managers to duck being the "cause" of the expense to fix it, until too late when it reached everyone's lips. Graham