That's what experts are advising hospitals do to get through the Y2K rollover as risk-free as possible- (p. 1). The main concern is with critical equipment such as monitoring devices that records vital signs and other life sustaining equipment. Some facilities may choose to avoid elective procedures for a week or even a month to ensure the date rolls over and the equipment is still functioning properly. Patients who will be in the hospital attached to critical date sensitive equipment when the date rolls over will be under careful observation. Joel Noble, MD (1999) advises hospitals to cancel leave for staff members and make sure that every patient attached to a critical machine has an individual monitoring them. .
Allegiance Healthcare (1999) states "As health-care providers grapple with the complexities of Y2K readiness, there is an emerging concern about the uninterrupted availability of products to deliver care-. Many medical facilities are concerned with the manufacturer and the distribution partner being able to meet current inventory levels, which may cause them to purchase additional inventory to minimize the risk. The manufacturers and distribution partners on the other hand are concerned with the additional inventory levels that some facilities may order. Manufacturers forecast future inventory levels based on historical usage and without having adequate information to build additional inventory a backorder situation is very likely. S. Wayne Kay from the Health Industry Distributor Association (HIDA) reported in Health Care Distributor "Stockpiling or hoarding of medical supplies is very likely to cause artificial shortages of medical supplies-. Based on these concerns hospitals are making decisions that will impact medical supply manufacturers. .
As part of an ongoing effort to stay on the cutting edge of medical supply manufacturing, Equiptek Industries formed a Y2K committee to evaluate the company and make necessary adjustments to become complaint.
... our food and water supplies would die out. No matter what you believed it was true that if you were living on this planet Y2K crossed your mind a few times before that night. Most people now think that Y2K was a big lie that the media formulated to use for advertising, but is that the truth. If there were another explanation it would ... ...
... Dell is able to meet the needs of customers ranging from bleeding to leading edge technologies. Dell is also committed to helping (bleeding, leading, and trailing edge) customers during the Y2K crisis. Dell-branded hardware products shipped since January 1, 1997 are Year 2000 certified. Dell has also provided BIOS upgrades and software utilities to bring earlier Dell-branded hardware products to ... a level of Y2K compliance. Teams have been assigned to monitor product Y2K compliance, coordinate Y2K program for Dell's internal systems and devices, and assess the Y2K readiness and risk of...
... believed that a possible collapse of the global computer network was highly plausible with the year 2000 approaching. This believed crisis became known as Y2K. The reason people believed a downfall of the global computer network was possible was because many programs could have possible treated the year 2000 as ... this would cause electronic confusion which would spiral global information systems into a disastrous downfall. While the majority of the people were stressing over Y2K the economy was actually beginning to broaden itself. Americans from 1992 to 2000 got the privilege to witn...
... a threat to our well being, we tend to act irrationally. One example of mans irrational behavior when felt threatened, occurred during the weeks prior to the new year of 2000(Y2K). It was rumored that the technology we had built over the years was in extreme jeopardy. The problem was thought to be a glitch in all integrated computer systems world wide ... to sell out of food, emergency kits, batteries and anything else people felt would help them out in there time of need. The truth is computer specialists were prepared for Y2K and in fact had been working on preventing this disaster fo...
... is a fallacy and smoke screen at best. At present the only thing in the way of feeding the world's hungry is corporate greed. A case in point would be the recent Y2K bug at the turn of the century. It was estimated that world wide, some nine billion dollars were spent to cure the ... Y2K problem which resulted only as a result of corporate shortsightedness. Did no one think we would see the year 2000 when this software was developed? The cost of eliminating world hunger ... ...
... integration and reliance of computers in our society was realized by the public,the media,and even some scientists. There was a need to be concerned,because at its worst the Y2K scare could have actually meant the complete fall of civilization. If it had not have been caught in time it most assuredly would have been. This, if nothing else, opened ... exciting, and possibly, very scary statement. This future is inescapable. We need to come together now, while we humans still have some semblance of influence, and collectively choose our fate. Y2K was an alarm and we shouldn't hit the snoo...
... broad and deep nature of the regulations, and the limited time with which to become compliant, the industry costs for HIPAA are projected to be similar to that of the Y2K effort in both cost and scope. The Department of Health and Human Services conservatively estimates the ten-year cost for compliance by healthcare organizations to be around $3-4 billion; yet other ... non-governmental organizations have projected the ultimate cost of compliance to be more around $32 billion, or 3-4 times that of Y2K remediation. This means businesses will face more expensive health care plans for thei...
... broad and deep nature of the regulations, and the limited time with which to become compliant, the industry costs for HIPAA are projected to be similar to that of the Y2K effort in both cost and scope. The Department of Health and Human Services conservatively estimates the ten-year cost for compliance by healthcare organizations to be around $3-4 billion; yet other ... non-governmental organizations have projected the ultimate cost of compliance to be more around $32 billion, or 3-4 times that of Y2K remediation. This means businesses will face more expensive health care plans for thei...
... in on "the need to prepare for the problem of 6 billion people on Earth -- Y6B as an alternative of preparing for some world outrage over a computer glitch -- Y2K- (22). The irony of Y6B and Y2K is that while the world waited in agony in light o a computer meltdown at the turn of the new millennium, the genuine problem was and is nonetheless everyone ... ...
