A Virtual Turf War . . .
. . . is breaking out in the healthcare industry as emerging dot-com companies, established manufacturers, distributors, and traditional brokers scramble to establish competing Internet marketplaces for buying and selling everything from Band-Aids to JPI machines. At stake are potentially billions of dollars in revenue, savings for hospitals and their IT departments, and a controlling interest in the way health care goods are bought and sold in the future . . .

InfoWorld, July 3, 2000

Hospital Purchasing Co-Ops Link Up to Make Buying On the Web Easier
Buying co-ops representing more than two-thirds of the nation’s hospitals are banding together with three fledgling electronic-commerce companies to demand that manufac- turers and distributors of medical supplies adopt standard product codes to ease the buying of supplies over the Internet, Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal reported . . .

Dow Jones Business News, June 14, 2000

. . . Of the two start-ups [Neoforma and Medibuy], Neoforma has the more technically sophisticated website . . . Neoforma seems to have better technology and stronger managers than its rival . . .

Forbes Magazine, September 1999

UPSIDE’s 1999 Hot 100
. . . They won because we believe they are the hottest private high-tech companies of 1999 . . . Neoforma, founded in 1996, operates an online marketplace linking buyers and sellers of all kinds of medical products. The company is a rising star in the lucrative business-to-business market . . .

UPSIDE Magazine, June 1999

Ariba IPO Goes Through the Roof
It looks like the Internet IPO market is still alive and well. Shares of e-commerce software provider Ariba went through the roof on their first day of trading on Wednesday . . . Ariba stock priced at $23 and closed at $90, a remarkable gain of 291 percent . . . E-commerce software looks hot, hot, hot.

E-Commerce Times, June 24, 1999

Web Firm Neoforma Names to Top Post Zollars From Cardinal
Neoforma Inc., in another example of an Internet company recruiting top management from traditional industries, said it is hiring a senior official of Cardinal Health Inc. to be chairman, president and chief executive . . .

Wall Street Journal, June 28, 1999

Cool Company - A Site Where Hospitals Can Click to Shop
Today hospitals and suppliers checking into Neoforma.com swap 10,000 to 20,000 emails a month about products . . .

Fortune Magazine, April 12, 1999

E-Commerce Poised to Impact Healthcare Supply Industry Significantly
Several companies are lining up to cash in on what looks like the purest form of healthcare e-business . . . Probably one of the most visionary, and by far the best financed, of the medical product e-commerce companies is Neoforma . . .

IDN Strategies, April 1999

The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
One of the Internet’s great conceits is that it changes everything. In the Internet Economy, you can buy anything from Furbys to furniture online . . . But swallowing the trillion-dollar dinosaur that is the U.S. healthcare industry could give Net entrepreneurs a serious case of indigestion . . .

The Industry Standard, April 5, 1999