Report offers Y2K health care contingency plans
May 1, 1999 less than 1 minute read
Report offers Y2K health care contingency plans
Health care organizations looking for detailed and practical year 2000 (Y2K) planning advice for mission-critical systems now have another resource — Five Minutes to Midnight: Practical Y2K Contingency Plans for Healthcare Facilities.
The report is published by ECRI, a nonprofit international health services research agency based in Plymouth Meeting, PA. It covers a wide range of topics, including clinical support of patients, medical device compliance, documentation, year 2000 liability exposures, media relations, staff fears and anxieties, and Y2K best practices.
Five Minutes to Midnight features Y2K contingency plan templates for mission-critical systems in health care facilities. The report also includes action recommendations for preparing for a Y2K-induced event.
ECRI also offers a Year 2000 Medical Device Knowledgebase, an inventory collection and management system that allows health care facilities to match their medical device inventory to a Y2K database. This is accomplished through software provided on CD-ROM and through ECRI’s Y2K Web site, located at http://www.ecriy2k.org.
For more information about these services, contact ECRI at 5200 Butler Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462-1298. Telephone: (610) 825-6000, ext. 5372. Fax: (610) 834-1275.
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