It consists of the following documents. An old technology offers a great Y2K solution thanks to recent regulatory changes in many states. This Guidebook was developed to assist health care facilities as well as community organizers in managing the complex Year 2000 problem. The ultimate goal is to encourage health care organizations to conduct a thorough review of their biomedical equipment and share findings within and across organizations. The strategized approach will carefully lead individual facilities through assessment and compliance conversion of their medical devices and systems.
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As health care providers, we have a duty to ensure that our patients are safe from Year 2000 risks when the clock ticks forward to the 21 st century. This document describes Year 2000 compliance issues for InterSystems' MSM database system. This is the President's Executive Order for the Year 2000 Conversion effort in the Executive Branch. Actions Needed on Electronic Data Interchanges Electronic data exchanges are used extensively to transfer information between computer systems. Consequently, as computer systems are converted to process Year 2000 dates, the associated data exchanges must also be made Year 2000 compliant.