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LinkThe GAO is quite unhappy with the self- reporting of the medical industry. In fact it does not like self-reporting at all. The results are false.
Makes me wonder about NERC, Chemicals and all the rest. Not to mention the feds.
-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), August 06, 1999
Coffee time-wrong link.Try this Link
-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), August 06, 1999.
They moved it to here:http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/background/y2k/main.sml
-- (Link-o-M@tic.com), August 06, 1999.
Hi Mike -- A few things I find funny. I find utter stupidity amusing.
- Failures in health care providers' billing systems have been discovered in Y2K testing conducted by Medicare...
- The report noted that more than a quarter of health care providers 123 out of 434 who participated in Medicare claims tests conducted before June 21 ran into problems.
- "Hospitals are not run by machines. They're really run by caregivers, by nurses, by physicians. ... There's human backup to the machines.''
- The AMA, the nation's largest doctors group, estimates that 40 percent of doctor's offices store their patient records on computers, but says most still keep paper copies too.
- "There's not likely to be a disaster, but there is likely to be an inconvenience,''
Well, that settles it. I'm impressed. I mean human backups and paper backups ? Yep, we're safe!! Business as usual.
-- Larry (cobol.programmer@usa.net), August 06, 1999.
This has been one of the on going problems at the health care facility where my daughter works. A couple of weeks ago, the overworked employees were told that the the clinic computers could not "talk" to Medicare/Medicade or the insurance computers.
-- Linda A. (adahi@muhlon.com), August 06, 1999.