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Nycomed Amersham Imaging Joins Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC
PR NEWSWIRE - July 25, 2000 15:29
PRINCETON, N.J., Jul 25, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Nycomed Amersham Imaging, the world leader in medical diagnostics, and a major provider of radiotherapy products, announced today that they have joined Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC, an independent Internet-based company. The Exchange was created to help health care providers make quicker, more efficient purchasing decisions by simplifying business processes and providing a single source for customers' health care purchases. Nycomed Amersham Imaging is proud to be joining the Global Healthcare Exchange in this important endeavor.
"Nycomed Amersham Imaging is dedicated to bringing new imaging agents and oncology therapies to the arsenal of products available to doctors to help patients live longer, healthier lives," said Dr. John Padfield, CEO of Nycomed Amersham Imaging. "Nycomed Amersham Imaging continues to strengthen its leadership through product innovation, complemented by a commitment to customer service that matches the excellence of its science," continued Dr. Padfield. "Our participation in The Global Healthcare Exchange provides our customers with an innovative and cost efficient way to access important clinical information and order products," he concluded.
The Global Healthcare Exchange was formed earlier this spring by five of the largest global health care companies -- Johnson & Johnson, GE Medical Systems, Baxter International, Inc., Abbott Laboratories and Medtronic, Inc. When launched, it will offer online ordering with customer-directed distribution; online inquiry of order status; online ordering confirmation; product catalogues and access to correct contract terms. It is expected that the first generation of the Exchange will go "live" in the fall of 2000.
The health care industry spends an estimated $100 billion annually in the United States alone on products and services. "The Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC, continues to build momentum as we welcome Nycomed Amersham Imaging to our list of distinguished partners. Our increasingly diverse membership further expands the portfolio of products and services we will offer our health care customers," said Mike Mahoney, General Manager of the Exchange.
Nycomed Amersham Imaging is part of Nycomed Amersham plc (NYSE: NYE) (London: NAM), the world leader in in-vivo diagnostic imaging and life sciences. Based in the United Kingdom, the company has annual sales of 1.3 billion pounds sterling (approximately U.S. $2.1 billion) and around 8,500 employees worldwide. |
