"The Y2K Millennium Bug and the Health Care Industry" to Keynote 15th Annual Westergaard Abella MedTech Conference.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 1998--Y2K Millennium Guru Orrie Dinstein will tell 200 healthcare industry executives and investment professionals at the Waldorf Astoria on Thursday that the upcoming Year 2000 Millennium Meltdown will place at risk virtually every aspect of health care from billing and patient records to laboratory devices and MRI 1. (application) MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2. MRI - Measurement Requirements and Interface. scanners. Dinstein will tell the audience: "It's not just software that's the problem in making the date transition to the 21st century. It's also embedded systems, those little microchips that in many instances will need replacement but you won't necessarily know which ones until they fail." A lawyer with Proskauer Rose LLP, Dinstein has been a speaker on Millennium Bug and Internet issues at conferences and seminars throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Waldorf Conference will feature presentations by chief executive officers of 12 selected biotech and medical device companies to institutional brokers, investment analysts and portfolio managers. Four of the twelve co-host companies are WBNcyberstation(tm) licensees of Westergaard Broadcasting Network.com www.wbn.com -- Cel-Sci (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. - News), EchoCath (Nasdaq:ECHTA - News), SunPharm (Nasdaq:SUNP SUNP Seattle Urban Nature Project (Washington) - News) and SuperGen (Nasdaq:SUPG SUPG Streamline Upwind Petrov Galerkin - News). Altogether, 14 WBNcyberstations(tm) have been activated since December 1997 when WBN launched its "New DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. of Investment Research" cyberstation concept. Six additional stations are under construction. The other 8 conference co-hosts will be profiled for one year in a WBN Silver Edition platform. They are Biopool International (Nasdaq:BIPL - News), Biotransplant (Nasdaq:BTRN - News), Harvard Scientific (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). BB:HVSF - News), Medical Science Systems (Nasdaq:MSSI - News), Oxo Chemie (not public), Senetek (Nasdaq:SNTKY - News), Unimed Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq:UMED - News) and Vasomedical (Nasdaq:VASO - News). WBN is a controlled circulation Internet webzine published by Westergaard Online Systems, Inc. (OTC BB:WSYS News). It licenses and manages for a fee a network of Internet cyberstations designed to assist public companies in defining their "personae" to online investors and to assist in protecting them from rumor mongering and other Internet fraud. More Quotes Westergaard Online Systems, Inc. And News (OTC BB:WSYS - news)
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