Media in Canada puts industry's slow response to Year 2000 issue under the spotlight
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The slow response by Canada's medical device industry to a government request earlier this year for companies to provide evidence that their devices are year 2000 compliant has provoked a "full-blown media enquiry", according to industry association MEDEC. In a news programme at the end of November, Canadian television questioned whether sufficient time remained for non-compliant devices to be identified and corrected.
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