in the circuit court of jackson county, missouri, at independence
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company with enterprise resource plann<strong>in</strong>g s<strong>of</strong>tware th<strong>at</strong> is<br />
based on an older oper<strong>at</strong><strong>in</strong>g system, called EDI th<strong>at</strong> is<br />
<strong>in</strong>ferior to Medical Supply’s web based services and poorly<br />
suited for electronic commerce.<br />
67. Cerner had bought out Mitch Cooper & Associ<strong>at</strong>es, a<br />
healthcare supply cha<strong>in</strong> consult<strong>in</strong>g company and seemed to be<br />
try<strong>in</strong>g to acquire <strong>the</strong> capability to cre<strong>at</strong>e an electronic<br />
healthcare marketplace.<br />
68. SAMUEL LIPARI told <strong>the</strong> VC <strong>at</strong>torney th<strong>at</strong> Medical Supply<br />
would not compromise itself by be<strong>in</strong>g aligned with any<br />
exist<strong>in</strong>g healthcare supplier.<br />
69. Medical Supply has <strong>the</strong> solution and SAMUEL LIPARI did<br />
not want to be ta<strong>in</strong>ted with companies th<strong>at</strong> support <strong>the</strong> high<br />
cost healthcare problem.<br />
70. SAMUEL LIPARI also recounted how start up healthcare<br />
electronic marketplace firms with technology similar to<br />
Medical Supply like Empac<strong>the</strong>alth and Medibuy had been<br />
bought up by GPOs for tens <strong>of</strong> millions <strong>of</strong> dollars, but th<strong>at</strong><br />
once <strong>the</strong>y were no longer <strong>in</strong>dependent, <strong>the</strong>ir market<br />
potential was elim<strong>in</strong><strong>at</strong>ed and <strong>the</strong> technology was used by GPO<br />
firms to deceive health systems <strong>in</strong>to th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>ir GPO<br />
partner was <strong>at</strong>tempt<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>in</strong>crease its economic efficiency<br />
when <strong>in</strong> fact <strong>the</strong>y cont<strong>in</strong>ued to restrict trade <strong>in</strong> support <strong>of</strong><br />
monopoliz<strong>in</strong>g markets.<br />
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