Year 2000
The Medasys Pinnacle clinical software was written to handle dates in the 2000 range. Tests were performed and found that the software could handle dates until the rollover from 8/4/2079. On this change over the date reverted to 1900 (Date format is MM/DD/YY).
This was done on one of the latest Pentium based processor systems with newer BIOS. Information researched from the various BIOS manufacturers that have been used in the past indicates various BIOS responses to the year 2000. These are AMI, AWARD and PHOENIX Technologies.
AMI indicates year 2000 compliance with core date 7/15/95 and later. AWARD indicates the BIOS release date will determine the procedure to handle 1999-2000 changeover. Phoenix Technologies implemented a fix for the year 2000 in February 1995. Dates before that may experience problems.
Customers with older BIOS and motherboards (386 or 486) should upgrade to a new 486 processor. Delaying the upgrade may mean that the 486 motherboards currently used may not be available. The new Pentium motherboards DO NOT have the required number of ISA slots for the customers existing boards. An upgrade with the PCI motherboards would also require changing Framer, VGA card, SCSI adapters, and possibly display board sets. This will cost much more to upgrade the total system.
Contract customers can be upgraded for $1200 including installation. Non contract customers will be charged $1600 plus any travel expenses incurred. Larger disk drives (2GB IDE) can also be provided in conjunction with the motherboard upgrade for an additional $750 (Contract) and $995 (non-Contract).
Medasys DxMM and Dx Pinnacle are Year 2000 compliant. The Oracle version is designed to work with the 1999 to 2000 transition. The HP-UX compliance depends upon the version level. HP indicates that HP-UX 10.20 is compliant. HP-UX 10.xx prior to HP-UX 10.20 will need a patch installed. Older systems running HP-UX 9.xxx will need to be upgraded.
Medasys Paragon and PBR systems are partially Year 2000 compliant. If you routinely power off your system at the end of each day you will correctly enter the date and time when you turn on your system to begin work the next day. Beginning January 1, 2000 and for the first day of each month thereafter, until 12/31/2062, the correct date will have to be entered at the beginning of each month only if you leave your system powered on continuously. Dates will correctly roll over through each month if the system is not powered off. These systems utilize a 286 processor to control the operator keyboard and menu display terminal which will not affect the clinical software.
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