[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 106 (Friday, June 1, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 29835]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-13770]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Coalition for Healthcare Estandards, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 14, 2001, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the Coalition for 
Healthcare eStandards, Inc. (The ``Coalition'') has filed written 
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties and (2) 
the nature and objective of the 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 
are: Consorta, Rolling Meadows, IL; empactHealth.com, Nashville, TN; 
Global Healthcare Healthcare Exchange, Westminister, CO; HealthTrust 
Purchasing Group, Nashville, TN; MedAssets.com, Alpharetta, GA; 
MedCenterDirect.com, Atlanta, GA; Medibuy.com, San Diego, CA; 
Neoforma.com, Inc., San Jose, CA; The New Health Exchange, St. Louis 
Park, MN; Novation, LLC, Irving, TX; and Premier, Inc., San Diego, CA.
    The general area of planned activity is to promote the development 
and adoption of uniform, open standards for supply chain transactions 
made over the Internet (``Standards''); to promote such Standards 
worldwide; and to undertake such other activities as may from time to 
time be appropriate to further the purposes and achieve these goals.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-13770 Filed 5-31-01; 8:45 am]
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