D2K/PLUS Date Correction Software Helps Major Medicare Claims Processing System Vendor Meet Year 2000 Challenge.NEPEAN, ONTARIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 6, 1998--Datalex Corporation (ME:DXK) today announced that VIPS VIPS Volunteers in Police Service VIPS VAT (value added tax) Information Management System VIPS Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity VIPS Volunteers in Public Schools VIPS VIsion-based Page Segmentation Healthcare Information Solutions, based in Towson, Maryland, has successfully completed its coding renovations and data file conversions for the Year 2000 for VIPS' Medicare System (VMS (1) (Virtual Memory System) A multiuser, multitasking, virtual memory operating system for the VAX series from Digital. VMS applications run on any VAX from the MicroVAX to the largest unit. See OpenVMS. ) using important components of the Datalex D2K/Plus (TM) toolkit. "Medicare contractors use VMS to process in excess of 200 million Medicare claims annually," said Arthur Lehrer, Senior Vice President, VIPS Healthcare Information Solutions. "Our corporate mandate and responsibility to HCFA HCFA abbr. Health Care Financing Administration HCFA, n.pr See Health Care Financing Administration. required addressing VMS Year 2000 issues with precision in a timely manner." Lehrer added, "I am proud to say that our Year 2000 team completed the VMS conversion on schedule...and with 4000 programs and 4 million lines of code The statements and instructions that a programmer writes when creating a program. One line of this "source code" may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the programming language. A line of code in assembly language is typically turned into one machine instruction. this was no small feat. The team's success can be attributed to a range of factors, including the use of the D2K/Plus (TM) toolkit." VIPS used the CML 1. CML - A query language. ["Towards a Knowledge Description Language", A. Borgida et al, in On Knowledge Base Management Systems, J. Mylopoulos et al eds, Springer 1986]. 2. CML - Concurrent ML. component of D2K/Plus (TM) to streamline and expedite the conversion of its data files. CML functionality also allows VIPS to time-travel the dates on the data files for testing. In addition, the D2K/Plus (TM) LPR See LPR/LPD. lpr - Line printer. The Unix print command. This does not actually print files but rather copies (or links) them to a spool area from where a daemon copies them to the printer. component was used to renovate all programs, and has been adopted by VIPS as the way to handle all date processing. Datalex Vice President of Sales, Ron Pimblett noted that: "D2K/Plus (TM) is an outstanding product to help with the US Health Industry Year 2000 remediation. We expect other US health care providers will consider it very seriously to resolve their problems." VMS is used by 10 health insurance companies that contract with HCFA to process approximately a third of the Medicare Part B and 75 percent of Durable Medical Equipment Durable medical equipment is a term of art used to describe certain Medicare benefits, that is, whether Medicare may pay for the item. The item is defined by Title XVIII the Social Security Act: VIPS Healthcare Information Solutions is an innovative information technology company developing breakthrough solutions that shrink the cost of processing and adjudicating claims, giving decision-makers the power to deliver cost-effective, high quality care and benefits, and stop the financial drain of health care fraud. For further information about VIPS, please visit the Internet at http://www.vips.com. Datalex is an independent provider of software tools targeting primarily Year 2000 conversions of mainframe computer applications running under various versions of the Multiple Virtual Storage (operating system) Multiple Virtual Storage - (MVS) Release 2 of OS/VS2, called MVS because it had multiple 16 MB virtual address spaces, in contrast to SVS. MVS ran on the IBM 390 series mainframes. It became MVS/SP, then MVS/XA (with 31-bit addressing) and then MVS/ESA. ("MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. ") operating system. The Company's tool set, D2K/Plus (TM), facilitates the conversions required for Year 2000 compliance by reducing the manual input otherwise required to undertake the assessment, conversion and testing of non-compliant data and source code. The Company believes that, relative to traditional conversion methods, the use of a tool set such as D2K/Plus (TM) provides time and labour efficiencies that may become increasingly valuable as programming resources become scarce with the approach of the Year 2000. For additional information or brochures, contact head office at 613/723-7820. Information can also be obtained via Datalex's web site at http://www.dlx2000.com.
CONTACT: Datalex Corporation
Ronald Pimblett, 613/723-7820
ronald_pimblett@dlx2000.com
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Finlay Kilgour International Inc.
Malcolm Finlay, 416/ 368-4545
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