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1. 1. Lake Forest Corporate Education - News & Events

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   Published on: 3/23/2006   Last Visited: 12/22/2006

   Paul BrennerLake Forest Corporate Education - News & Events
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   Paul BrennerIT ConsultantFormer Vice President, E-BusinessBaxter International, Inc.
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   Paul Brenner is an independent consultant with a practice focusing on management and technology issues.He has broad experience in all facets of information technology and a proven track record of using IT as a tool to improve business profitability.
   
   Paul retired from Baxter International after 24 years with the company.Most recently he served as Vice President, providing internal consulting services to business units and corporate staff and leading corporate E-Business initiatives.
   
   Earlier in his career at Baxter, Paul worked with operations issues, information technology and the data center, and business processes.He has expertise in general management, communications, meeting facilitation, Board development, systems and information management.
   
   Paul has a BS in Computer Science from Iowa State University and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
   
   Active in the community, Paul is a volunteer consultant for the Executive Service Corp. of Chicago and is a disaster service volunteer for the American Red Cross.

2. 2. Press Room: Press Release - 50100

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   Published on: 5/1/2000   Last Visited: 2/10/2001

   Medtegrity addresses the need for secure and private electronic transactions, said Paul Brenner, Baxter International Inc.'s Vice President of E-Business.For Baxter, this would provide a means for the reliable and confidential transfer of information between clinicians and patients for better patient care..

3. 3. Skila.com-The Company

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   Published on: 12/12/1999   Last Visited: 8/3/2001

   "By doing this, we are absolutely delivering on something that we have heard loud and clear from our customers-and that is a single place to get information and commerce," said Paul Brenner, Vice President of e-business for Baxter International, a Deerfield, Illinois-based company that manufacturers blood-collection devices, intravenous and dialysis systems, and other machines.
   
   By collaborating, companies hope to offer customers a one-stop shop for their long list of products, including Johnson & Johnson's medical supplies, such as Band-Aid bandages and Tylenol medicine, Abbott Laboratories' diagnostic and pharmaceutical products, GE Medical Systems' ultrasound and X-ray machines, and Medtronic's heart-related devices and equipment.Guidant Corp., based in Indianapolis, Ind., manufactures coronary stents and catheters.Natick, Massachusetts-based Boston Scientific sells minimally invasive medical devices.
   
   "[Customers] want the ability to have a single place to get all the information they need," Brenner said."[The exchange] has an incredible potential to take an awful lot of overhead and noise out of the system."
   
   Why Collaborate?
   
   The exchange also hopes to cut costs, addressing a major concern for the healthcare industry.Hospitals, homecare agencies, and nursing homes were hit hard by the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, which cut Medicare spending significantly and caused healthcare providers millions of dollars in reimbursements.
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   "The purpose of the exchange is to facilitate commerce-not to facilitate contract negotiations," Brenner said."Pricing remains something that is negotiated between the buyer and the seller, and the agreed-to pricing is what is loaded into the exchange."
   
   Like other Internet exchanges launched recently, the new healthcare collaboration will operate as its own company and with independent management.It will be based in Chicago, and each of the founding companies will own equity stakes in the venture.The online exchange should be open for business this fall in the United States, and abroad sometime next year.
   
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   Baxter International sells its medical systems on cyberspace in Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America, and may create its own e-commerce site in the United States, Brenner said.
   
   Riding the E-Commerce Wave
   
   The global healthcare exchange mirrors a tech-savvy market in which B2B deals have become the latest trend-and banding together online is becoming more of a necessity than a choice in order to compete.
   
   Broadlane, a joint venture of Ventro Corp., and Tenet Healthcare Corp., formed in December and hopes to lure healthcare purchasing managers to its e-commerce souk.More than 250 healthcare facilities-including 113 hospitals in the Tenet system-have joined the Internet marketplace, Upside Today reported.