Roger that.
And there were still failures
https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Hospital-software-failure-shows-Y2K-bug-can-still-bite
Throughout January laboratory staff discovered a series of minor date errors in Pathlan. The changes were logged and fixed, but none was thought to be serious. At the end of January, the laboratory staff considered the system Y2K compliant.
But some of the midwives were not sure. That month a sister at one of Sheffieldâs client hospitals raised concerns that the number of positive tests for Downâs syndrome was lower than she expected. In April, she phoned the department again to express her concern but staff assured her that there were no problems. A report by the NHS quality assurance department, also went unnoticed by the laboratory workers, who were battling with chronic staff shortages. The figures in the report might have shown them a discrepancy between Sheffieldâs results and those of other labs.
Later that month, one of the departmentâs senior staff happened to glance through the departmentâs log book. The results did not look right. He asked a medical officer to audit the log book and report back, but the officer was busy with other work and the report never arrived.
In May, a midwife at another hospital became concerned at the low number of high-risk test results she was receiving. She spoke to a medical officer. He did not consider it important enough to refer to his manager. Two weeks later, the midwife phoned again and spoke to the manager of the pathology department.
By 23 May the manager had the log book audit on his desk. It was clear that something was wrong. Hartlepoolâs Mr W tapped into the Pathlan system via remote modem and quickly found the error. Nearly 158 pregnant women had been wrongly told there was a low risk that their babies had Downâs syndrome. The program had mistakenly calculated their ages as negative numbers.
Dang, that reads like that scene from Children of Men.
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