[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 15 (Wednesday, January 23, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 3236]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-1592]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Standards-Based Interoperable Guideline System 
Joint Venture

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 26, 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''), IDX Systems Corporation 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 objectives 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 IDX Systems Corp., Seattle, WA; 
Apelon, Inc., Ridgefield, CT; Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Mayo 
Clinic Rochester, Rochester, MN; IHC Health Services, Inc., Salt Lake 
City, UT; and Board of Regents, University of Nebraska, University of 
Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE. The nature and objectives of the 
venture are the development of healthcare software consisting of a 
computable format for representing clinical interoperable guidelines, a 
tool for authoring and editing these guidelines, and software which 
maps and integrate guideline content into clinical information systems.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 02-1592 Filed 1-22-02; 8:45 am]
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