Neoforma and ECRI Collaborate to Offer Online Services to the Healthcare Marketplace Worldwide.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. and PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.--(BW HealthWire)--May 11, 1999--Neoforma.com, the global healthcare marketplace and ECRI ECRI European Commission against Racism and Intolerance ECRI Emergency Care Research Institute ECRI Economic Cycle Research Institute , the world's leading independent non-profit health services research Health services research is the multidisciplinary field of scientific investigation that studies how social factors, financing systems, organizational structures and processes, health technologies, and personal behaviors affect access to health care, the quality and cost of health care, agency for healthcare technology, today announced the signing of a strategic partnership agreement. The partnership will make key elements of ECRI's industry standard information and services available on neoforma.com, empowering healthcare product procurement decision-makers worldwide. ECRI offers users the Health Devices Sourcebook in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and the Sourcebase, which includes 18,000 medical equipment suppliers and their products worldwide. The Sourcebook and Sourcebase undergo a strict verification process performed by a team of ECRI experts. In addition, Neoforma will incorporate standard medical product nomenclature nomenclature /no·men·cla·ture/ (no´men-kla?cher) a classified system of names, as of anatomical structures, organisms, etc. binomial nomenclature consistent with ECRI's Universal Medical Device Nomenclature System (UMDNS UMDNS Universal Medical Device Nomenclature System ). UMDNS is licensed to organizations in over 70 countries and is available in multiple languages. Neoforma.com joins healthcare institutions, regulatory agencies, international health systems, and the U.S. National Library of Medicine Noun 1. U.S. National Library of Medicine - the world's largest medical library National Library of Medicine, United States National Library of Medicine as users of this proven system. Neoforma and ECRI will also develop a series of services to substantially reduce the time and effort required to plan or renovate healthcare facilities. Additionally, ECRI and Neoforma plan to collaborate on other information access services that will help establish international industry standards and streamline healthcare purchasing processes. "Neoforma and ECRI provide professionals in the healthcare industry a global platform for finding business information that helps them make decisions," said Wayne McVicker, VP of Strategy at Neoforma. "The collaboration between our organizations and our use of the Internet accelerate the creation of a global platform for distributing healthcare information," said Joel J. Nobel, M.D., President of ECRI. About ECRI ECRI is the world's largest content provider of information on healthcare technology. It is a thirty-year-old nonprofit health services research organization headquartered in the Philadelphia suburb of Plymouth Meeting, with branch offices in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. . ECRI specializes in planning, procurement and management of medical technology and has extensive healthcare technology assessment, medical product evaluation and procurement advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. They may be provided by government bureaux, by commercial companies who deal in pharmaceuticals or animals or animal and related databases and publications. About Neoforma Neoforma is the leader in the business-to-business electronic global healthcare marketplace. The company is transforming the healthcare industry by delivering information to the people who need it using the proven efficiencies of the Internet. Neoforma was founded in 1996 in response to the needs of the healthcare industry for direct, timely access to product information and facility planning. Today, neoforma.com (http://www.neoforma.com) supplies the world's largest online database of medical products and services to enable commerce among healthcare professionals primarily involved in paper-based interchanges, including product and service vendors, healthcare providers, hospital administrators and professionals, charitable medical organizations, professional associations, materials managers, and facility designers and planners. Neoforma and www.neoforma.com are registered trademarks of Neoforma, Inc. |
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