Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993Healthcare Information Infrastructure Proposal (HIIT)

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 70 (Wednesday, April 10, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 15970]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8862]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ANTITRUST DIVISION

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Healthcare Information Infrastructure Proposal 
(HIIT)

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 9, 1995, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Healthcare Information 
Infrastructure Proposal (HIIT) has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing certain changes. The notifications were filed for 
the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of 
antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. 
Specifically, the following new participants in the program, led by the 
South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA), Columbia, SC and operating 
under the Healthcare Open Systems & Trials (HOST) Consortium are: 
SoftMed Systems, Inc., Sacramento, CA; Liberty Health System, 
Baltimore, MD; and Statewide Health Information Network, Inc., 
Charleston, WV. The following parties have changed their names: 
BellSouth Network Solutions, Atlanta, GA formerly doing business as 
BellSouth Business Systems and Connecticut Healthcare Research and 
Education Foundation, Inc., Wallingford, CT, formerly doing business as 
Connecticut Hospital Research and Education Foundation, Inc.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activities of HIIT. Membership in HIIT remains open, and HIIT intends 
to file additional written notification disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On September 27, 1994, HIIT filed its original notification 
pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice 
published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of 
the Act on February 15, 1995 (60 FR 8735-02).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-8862 Filed 4-9-96; 8:45 am]
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