ATP Targets Opportunities for Funding
in the Healthcare Industry

Our nation's healthcare communities today are composed of much more than the medical institutions and personnel with which we normally associate healthcare. As we have approached the 21^st century, community membership has extended to employers, state and local governments, financial institutions and information technology providers. All of these players have a stake in finding solutions to the country's emerging healthcare challenges that will result in the provision of high quality, cost-effective care to everyone. New models of care are being designed to address the challenges presented and information technology will be the enabling discipline that supports the implementation of these models by making possible the acquisition and optimal distribution of requisite corpuses of knowledge.

Within the past year ATP has invited the healthcare industry to submit ideas on their vision of healthcare in the 21^st century. The response, in the form of white papers, position papers, emails, phone calls, visits and conversation within informal discussion sessions held at various healthcare conferences around the country, has been assimilated and presented back to industry in the form of an ATP position paper. ATP now invites further comment from the healthcare community within this on-line forum. You can post your ideas and comments and/or browse others' notices. We ask that you not provide comment or information of a proprietary nature as this is a public forum. ATP encourages companies with innovative technical solution approaches to submit pre-proposals for specific project ideas (see Appendix E of the ATP Proposal Preparation Kit).

Please note that ATP will be holding their 99' National Meeting in November from the 15^th through the 17^th in San Jose, California. Healthcare Informatics, represented within Track 3: Information Technology , will present speakers and offer workshops on the 16^th. Please visit our ATP Website for more information.

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• are not otherwise intended for the purpose of finding potential partners which may participate in an R&D project proposed to ATP. 

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