[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 68 (Monday, April 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 15521]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8561]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Healthcare Information Technology Enabling 
Community Care (HITECC)

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 27, 1995, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Healthcare Information 
Technology Enabling Community Care (``HITECC'') has filed written 
notification simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties to the 
Joint Venture and (2) the nature and objectives of the Joint Venture. 
The notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the Act's 
provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual 
damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 
Act, the identities of the parties operating under the Healthcare Open 
Systems & Trials (``HOST'') Consortium are: South Carolina Research 
Authority (``SCRA''), North Charleston, SC; General Electric Company, 
Schetady, NY; Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc., Charleston, WV; 
University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD; Advance Radiology, 
Towson, MD; Shared Medical Systems Corporation, Malvern, PA; Technology 
2020, Oak Ridge, TN; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; 
Connecticut Healthcare Research and Education Foundation, Inc., 
Wallingford, CT; and BellSouth Telecommunications, Atlanta, GA. The 
general area of planned activity is to develop and demonstrate the 
information mechanisms needed to turn fragmented, paper-based 
healthcare data into a community-wide computerized information resource 
that provides secure and simple access to integrated multi-media 
information across local and wide-are networks. Membership in HITECC 
remains open, and HITECC intends to file additional written 
notification disclosing all changes in membership, if any occur.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-8561 Filed 4-5-96; 8:45 am]
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