[Federal Register: May 12, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 91)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation 
Commission

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 8, 2005, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Electronic

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Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (``EHNAC'') has filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the name and principal place of 
business of the standards development organization and (2) the nature 
and scope of its standards development activities. 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 name and principal place 
of business of the standards development organization is: Electronic 
Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission, Farmington, CT. The nature 
and scope of EHNAC's standards development activities are: to set 
standards for electronic health care industry participants to 
facilitate the electronic transmission of bills and payments in a 
manner consistent with all federal laws and regulations. EHNAC 
establishes criteria to determine whether individual electronic 
industry participants are compliant with industry standards, and it 
provides accreditation to electronic health care industry participants 
to certify that such participants are compliant with applicable 
standards. The standards promote excellence, innovation, cooperation, 
open competition and timely regulatory compliance within the health 
care industry in order to improve the quality of healthcare delivery, 
to protect the security and privacy of patient-identifiable information 
and achieve administrative simplification and cost savings.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 05-9528 Filed 5-11-05; 8:45 am]

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