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

To: Captain Jack who wrote (5872)	5/30/1999 9:02:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

<Try a subscription to Federal Computer Week. It talks of the problem areas and what is still to be done.> You mean like this? FDA: Y2K readiness for hundreds of medical devices unknown May 25, 1999 Food and Drug Administration officials today told House subcommittees that more than 300 medical manufacturers have equipment on the market that could experience failures from Year 2000 computer problems. fcw.com BTW - FDA's really updated their site over the past few weeks. Even more serious, said Willemssen, FDA did not require device makers to submit test results certifying compliance. When three hospitals sent engineers to independently verify certification claims, Willemssen testified, "several of these engineers informed us that their testing identified some noncompliant equipment that the manufacturer has previously certified as compliant." Among those items was a cardiac catheterization unit, used to treat heart attack patients; a pulse oximeter, used to measure oxygen levels in the blood; and medical imaging equipment, used in diagnostic scanning. foxnews.com My neighbor had been a high-level exec with CA's largest HMO. Now consults locally with physicians. I get the info, and she tries to build awareness. She's very frustrated. Most of the physicians and smaller healthcare facilities still think there's gonna be a silver bullet and someone's gonna fix this stuff for them. A number of the smaller groups can't even submit Medicare claims now since all must be submitted in Y2K compliant format. They waited too late to update software. Thought Bill Gates was going to come up with a solution. Cheryl