Re: [ebxml-mktg-sc] FW: ebXML and e-Procurement in the Healthcaresector

[Alan Kotok <akotok@disa.org>]

Carol:

If it helps, David Webber and I (well, more David than me) did an article 
for Managed Healthcare Executive magazine about a year ago that discusses 
ebXML applications to health care, focusing on the potential for addressing 
problems such as adverse drug events.  See 
http://www.xmlglobal.com/news/articles/MHC-ebXML-Article.pdf .

Alan Kotok
Editor, < E-Business*Standards*Today />
http://www.disa.org/dailywire/
Data Interchange Standards Association
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At 09:06 AM 1/8/03 -0500, Carol Geyer wrote:
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>FYI,
>Carol
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Geert Thienpont [mailto:geert.thienpont@ramit.be]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 7:17 AM
>To: patrick.gannon@oasis-open.org
>Subject: ebXML and e-Procurement in the Healthcare sector
>
>
>Dear Sir,
>
>We would like to do a study about ebXML. How it could be useful for 
>e-Procurement in the Healthcare sector.
>We are participating in a R&D project called OPUS.
>
>OPUS stands for Optimal Public Procurement in the Healthcare Marketplace
>
>OPUS creates an efficient e-procurement mechanism that enables hospitals 
>and pharmaceutical suppliers to electronically exchange contractual 
>information, aided by the technologies of optimisation and business rules.
>OPUS mediation service provider will grasp the market opportunity, as this 
>is triggered by the consumer's request, offer the participants the ability 
>to dynamically constellate with other medical suppliers, and promote 
>collective competition among the constellations. Appropriate settlement 
>modlles will address the necessary contractual and/or value sharing 
>arrangements spontaneously or dynamically.
>OPUS modules, entailing the various business perspectives, policies and 
>market rules, will resolve any apparent conflict. The dynamic pricing 
>module will dismantle the generated product and disseminate the value 
>among the implicated partners.
>More information can be found: 
><http://opus.pouliadis.gr/>http://opus.pouliadis.gr
>
>I would like to ask you if some work has been done in this direction by 
>the ebXML association or related groups?
>
>Thank you very much in advance.
>Sincerely Yours
>
>Geert Thienpont
>
>
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>Geert Thienpont
>Project Manager, RAMIT vzw
>tel: +32 9 240 34 21
>fax: +32 9 240 34 39
>email: geert.thienpont@ramit.be
>
>
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