[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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