The millennium bug: a prescription for action

Stud Health Technol Inform. 1998:52 Pt 2:973-6.

Abstract

Healthcare delivery systems involving technology are vulnerable to year 2000 date problems. This paper describes the unique features of this problem as related to healthcare, proposes a classification to the problems, and structures an approach to begin resolving this looming disaster.

MeSH terms

  • Chronology as Topic*
  • Computer Systems*
  • Equipment and Supplies
  • Hospital Information Systems
  • Risk Assessment
  • Software*
  • Time