Providing business management assistance to members of an alliance of university hospitals in providing cost-effective services; group purchasing services, namely, negotiating contracts with providers of medical services and purchasing medical and hospital supplies for others; providing commercial information on capital equipment pricing for university hospitals; collecting, aggregating, analyzing and providing comparative data, benchmarking, and best practice information to healthcare related groups and their business partners to identify medical, surgical, pharmacy and other supply item cost savings opportunities, operational and clinical performance improvement, and trends, namely, business administration assistance and consultancy in the field of healthcare operations; business consultation services, namely, providing on-site assistance to academic medical centers to reduce non-labor expenses and improve provider performance, namely, business administration consultancy; providing information and analysis of business information to address strategic business and public policy issues affecting academic medical centers, namely, business research services; business collaboration services, namely, providing a national computer-based networking website for healthcare educators and medical educators to collaborate across disciplines to help improve healthcare provision and reduce costs; business risk management services, namely, providing a website where medical personnel may report medical errors and adverse events at the point of care via a global computer network

Financial management services; insurance administration in the field of professional liability insurance services; and capital equipment maintenance insurance services, namely, insurance administration in the field of capital equipment maintenance all provided to members of an alliance of university hospitals

Electronic transmission of news and information related to the healthcare field, via computer; providing electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among users in the field of healthcare to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and ideas by healthcare providers; communications services, namely, providing electronic transmission of information stored in a database via interactively communicating computer systems containing event reports that detail medical errors and adverse patient outcomes for review and analysis by governmental agencies

Educational services, namely, conducting courses, classes, seminars and workshops, and on-line classes in the field of medicine to assist practitioners in solving real-life healthcare-related problems; educational services, namely, conducting courses of instruction in the fields of continuing medical and clinical education, healthcare operations management education, and conducting on-line exhibitions and displays and interactive exhibits in the fields of continuing medical and clinical education, human resource and healthcare operations management education; educational course monitoring, namely, development of curriculum and reporting results on completion rates for courses of instruction by others; educational services, namely, providing a nursing residency program

Providing temporary use of online non-downloadable computer software to healthcare related groups and their business partners for evaluating and managing medical, surgical, pharmacy and other supply item cost savings opportunities and trends; conducting strategic research studies in the fields of medicine, health care delivery and the scientific aspects of healthcare policy, healthcare cost management and financing as these fields impact on quality of healthcare; providing online, non-downloadable computer programs for electronic data entry of medical errors and adverse events at the point of care; providing online, non-downloadable computer programs for electronic data entry to support the clinical operation of university hospitals by analyzing patient outcomes and resources applied to said patients to then produce management reports that alert the user to trends, areas of improvements and opportunities to improve patient treatment

Providing an online computer database in the field of healthcare and nursing containing information used to track, measure, and benchmark nursing quality among member providers