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The 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

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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.