World health organization

CHeck out the following:
Les soins dirigés aux États-Unis : la mer est houleuse [ ... - [ Translate this page ]
... a inclus une longue séance d'information sur l'assurance-maladie et les organisations
de maintien de la santé (OMS). Elle est rentrée chez elle ce soir-là ...
www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-161/issue-6/0671.htm

It's already English. Found the following:

Archives du groupe fr.emplois.offres: [CDI RP] INGENIEUR ...
... 99 E_mail : [email protected] AUTRES INFORMATIONS ----- Contexte Le département OMS (Order Management Systems) développe des systèmes qui permettent ...
emplois.fr.net/archive27/3667.html

Using Google, I found 14 more sites in French with "départements de l'OMS." They all seem to have different directeurs, be attached to assorted institutions, so this must be a pretty standard way to refer to such a department in French. Here's the google URL:

I know the acronym is English, but it's the only thing I've found so far which could be relevant!

"Outage insurance gains acceptance

Work/outage management reports

The McGraw-Hill Companies' Energy IT magazine announces the availability of two new special reports tracking developments in work and outage management systems (WMS/OMS), and the activities and the current perspectives of chief information officers (CIOs).


Unplanned power plant outages can be a source of ulcers and gray hair. One way to mitigate the stress is to indemnify your generation assets against just such events. For example, ACE Power Products, Philadelphia, and Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd. (NEIL), Wilmington, Del., recently teamed up to offer indemnification for replacement power cost in the event of short-duration unplanned outages.

NEIL and ACE have developed a custom policy form and rating structure for financial exposure specifically on nuclear plants. Quentin Jackson, NEIL's president and CEO, explains, "Over the course of the last few years, we have actively been looking for ways to expand NEIL's value to its members as the utility industry faces new exposures resulting from deregulation and consolidation. An unplanned outage at a large-scale nuclear plant can have particularly adverse consequences; the cost of replacement power could exceed $150 million for a 1,000-MW plant that is unexpectedly down for just three days."

By pooling purchasing power, the suppliers say, coverage will be available immediately at terms and prices more favorable than those in the open market. The pooling structure promotes risk sharing among the membership of NEIL to achieve lower premiums, stable capacity, expanded coverage, and dividend opportunities. As an alternative to dollar funding of the pool layer, members may elect a "megawatt option" whereby contributions will be valued in terms of a fixed number of megawatts. By setting aside megawatts instead of dollars, contributions will be lower when a member's generation revenues are lower. Pool layer capacity will be $50 million per plant and any NEIL member that buys or sells nuclear power is eligible for coverage, the suppliers report. "

This a windows-based software system for managing patients'records via optical scanners etc. Insurance companies and medical firms do use it. See:
http://www.oms2000.com/Public/features.asp.

Good luck!

after Nikki's suggestion, it would appear that some insurance companies use the WHO/OMS epidemiological information to assess risk

See this paper
ASSURANCE ET PRÉVENTION by UPEA,UNION PROOFESSIONNELLE DES ENTREPRISES D'ASSURANCES
in which OMS recommendations and statistics (tabagisme, neurological disorders) are used as a benchmark.