Year 2000 Computing Issues Related to Health Care in DoD

Abstract

The audit objective was to determine whether planning and management are adequate to ensure that mission-critical health systems will continue to operate properly in the year 2000. This report discusses year 2000 issues involving health care information systems, biomedical devices, and facility devices (for example, elevators; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems; intrusion detection systems; and sprinkler systems). This report presents the results of the first phase of this project. The second phase will involve follow up on the issues and recommendations raised in this report, as well as an expanded evaluation of testing and contingency plans.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 15, 1998
Accession Number
ADA367635

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Application Software
  • Computers
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Electronic Mail
  • Health Care
  • Health Care Facilities
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Information Systems
  • Intrusion Detection
  • National Security
  • Operating Systems
  • Therapy

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology