The year 2000 issue is the most pressing problem facing the Exeter System
and we hope to have this resolved in the next couple of months. This will
require modifications to the software.  There are 140 pages of routine names
which have to be modified.  The changes will be rolled out to all practices
free of charge.!! Hardware problems are not so simple.  I am assured that
all HP hardware installed since 1995 is Yr2000 coimpliant and that HP
hardaare installed prior to that date is not a problem as the year is held
in 4 digits.  This has, as yet not been tested, but I am very hopeful that
Exeter will be accredited to RFA4 before the summer is out.

Dr Alan Black
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Date: 01 February 1998 12:08
Subject: Re: supplier y2k compliance was FrontDesk Pro....


>Graham wrote (and my mail client recorded it as being
>to: me and to: the list, and From: the list * )
>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>From: [log in to unmask]
>>I was speaking to someone last week who is contracted to check some gp
>>practice systems and found a lack of Y2K compliance with some standard
>gp
>>systems and disagreed with the suppliers plan of action.
>>
>>The big question is who is to pay for all of this? Free upgrades cover
>a very
>>trivial side of the real cost. Add in wasted management/professional
>time
>>for starters. My contact was being paid by the local health authority.
>Why
>>should they, ie we,  pay for his time? The IT industry lit the fire.
>Let
>>them pay to put it out.
>
>I am pleased to hear that at least some HAs are actually checking,
>rather than relying on assurances from the suppliers.
>Liverpool HA is a particular case in point with a need to check despite
>a specific assurance.
>
>At least one major supplier is demonstrating itself unable to
>maintain at least one of the systems it has acquired, never mind
>develop it
>toward RFA 4 ( or 2 for that matter).
>
>There are of course many other matters occupying IT companies with
>international commitments, and it might well be that such problems as
>the
>introduction of the Euro would take a higher precedence in calls upon
>effective
>management staff or in internal prestige and pay than maintaining the
>UK GP
>IT market.
>
>Such problems could not arise in a company whose business was GP IT in
>the UK,
>and seems unlikely to affect EMIS, MicroTest, the Exeter System,
>Pennine or I
>hope Meditel despite its links to the German company.
>No doubt there are other companies either unaffected by it or whose
>preparations were well in hand sufficiently long ago that the Euro
>conversion
>will not distract them from servicing their GP clients, hopefully with
>perfect
>agreements.
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>* OffRoad can sort messages into text files in directories if asked, on
>the
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>read them
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>set
>VBDATA to digest mode.
>--- OffRoad 1.9r registered to Adrian Midgley



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