Hospitals fight millennium bug

Health-care officials shoot for stable condition after Y2K

Last summer, The Cassandra Project hosted a Year 2000 Public Awareness and Preparedness Seminar in Boulder as part of a nationwide effort to promote community awareness and preparedness for Y2K.

At that conference, Joel Ackerman, founder and executive director of the Rx2000 Solutions Institute, a nonprofit organization that consults with the health care community on Y2K issues, spoke about the potential effects of Y2K on patient care.

He gave alarming predictions that the programming glitch that prevents computers from recognizing the year 2000 will cause equipment failures in hospitals resulting in patient deaths, and he…