Year 2000 Compliance Status of Biomedical Devices Included in Navy Fleet Hospitals

摘要

This report is one of a series being issued by the Inspector General, DoD, in accordance with an informal partnership with the Chief Information Officer, DoD, to monitor DoD efforts to address the year 2000 computing challenge. For a complete listing of audit projects addressing the issue, see the year 2000 web pages on the IGnet at http://www.ignet.gov. The Navy maintains 10 500-bed fleet hospitals in its Deployable Medical Systems inventory. Eight of the hospitals are pre-positioned throughout the world. The fleet hospitals are containerized and are equipped with biomedical devices such as anesthesia apparatus, monitor-recorder electrocardiographs, and visual ultrasonic apparatus. Each fleet hospital requires about 450 containers for storage. The Navy Fleet Hospital Program Office was a detachment of the Naval Supply Systems Command until October 1, 1999. On October 1, 1999, the office was realigned under the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.