Where to go for Y2K help
Worried about where to find more information on the year 2000 problem and how it might affect you? There are plenty of World Wide Web sites full of facts. Among them are these:
o www.year2000.com. This site provides good general information and an ongoing discussion group with more than 1,800 subscribers.
o www.y2k.com. There are some great links to other sites at this address, as well as information on seminars, conferences, and special areas that deal with issues faced by small business owners — legal, management, and technical.
o www.s390.ibm.com/vse/vsehtmls/vse2000.htm. This address provides information of a more technical nature, particularly for programs that use COBOL.
o www.Rx2000.org. This site is a great resource for health-care-specific Y2K information.
o www.nstl.com/html/nstl_Y2K_main.html. This site offers testing programs that can be downloaded from the Web. However, the programs won’t test critical operating-system software.
o www.sba.gov/y2k. This is a free site designed to help small business owners.
o www.bytewise.com/altyear2000/. This site includes information from a year 2000 users group in Atlanta that includes representatives from several large Atlanta-based corporations, such as Coca Cola.
Y2K health care survey results
A recent survey of 55 health care organizations active in year 2000 (Y2K) issues revealed:
• 97% of respondents agreed that Y2K issues have significant potential to negatively impact the quality of health care.
• 94% agreed that Y2K issues have significant potential to create errors leading to unnecessary deaths in health care.
• 69% agreed health care lags behind most other industries in addressing Y2K issues.
• 62% already have experienced Y2K failures in their organizations.
Source: Rx2000 Solutions Institute. This information is available on the Rx2000 Web site at www.Rx2000.org.
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