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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: David McDonough
Phone: 703-243-9262

Elcom Systems, Ltd. Signs On As Gold Sponsor for HIGPA's
2002 Global Summit on Health Care Purchasing and Supply

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 4, 2002) - The Health Industry Group Purchasing Association (HIGPA) is pleased to announced that Elcom Systems, Ltd., a Berkshire, England-based information technology company, will serve as Gold Sponsor for HIGPA's 2002 Global Summit on Health Care Purchasing and Supply, to be held May 6 - 7, 2002 at the Grand Amsterdam Hotel in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Elcom Systems, Ltd., offers corporate, institutional and governmental organizations a wide choice of best-of-breed IT brands, a high quality supply and configuration capability and the associated economies of scale that attach to high volume throughput.

"HIGPA is pleased that Elcom has chosen to sponsor the 2002 Global Summit on Health Care Purchasing & Supply," said HIGPA President & CEO Robert Betz, Ph.D. "With the generous financial support of sponsors like Elcom, HIGPA is able to ensure that Global Summit attendees will gain valuable and action orientated knowledge about innovative manners to deliver the highest quality of health care to the greatest number of patients."

The 2002 Global Summit on Health Care Purchasing & Supply will bring leading minds in the non-labor sectors of health care from various countries together to discuss in-depth different models and strategies for approaching a common goal: the effective and affordable delivery of health care. This conference is designed to take the success that HIGPA has had in bringing buyers and suppliers together in the United States and broaden the audience to include international entities. Further, with the added complexities that result in comparing health care systems from country-to-country, the Global Summit will also provide a unique opportunity for a wide variety of discussion topics.

Summit faculty will include senior health care executives and decision-makers from both the private and public sectors, international and academic health care leaders. Summit symposia include a wide variety of topics, including health care purchasing trends, global partnership opportunities, and e-commerce technology influences.

For more information on the 2002 Global Summit, please visit HIGPA's web site at http://www.higpa.org/events/upcoming/global_02/global_2002.asp.

HIGPA is a chartered trade association of approximately 170 health care purchasing and supply chain organizations that serve approximately three out of every four U.S. acute care hospitals, as well as most of the long term care, home care and medical group practice markets. HIGPA's Trading Partner members include many of the world's leading health care product manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and related suppliers. HIGPA's Industry Members include purchasing groups, associations, multi-hospital systems, and health care provider alliances. According to a recent study conducted by a former principal analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, hospitals save patients approximately $20 billion each year by purchasing products through group contracts.

To learn more about HIGPA, visit www.higpa.org or call 703-243-9262.

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