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Wal-Mart Is Piloting E-Health Record System; A small number of employees have been given secure access to digitized information -- such as prescription drug records, lab results, and more -- about their own personal health.

Publication: Information Week
Publication Date: 22-JAN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Wal-Mart has begun rolling out personal electronic health records to a handful of employees as part of a plan to eventually provide more than a million of the retailer's workers and their dependents with digitized health records.

The rollout by Wal-Mart is part of a larger project announced more than a year ago by Dossia, a coalition that includes Wal-Mart and several other large employers, including Intel, British Petroleum, Pitney Bowes, Cardinal Health, Applied Materials, AT&T, and Sanofi-Aventis.

Dossia is partnering with Children's...

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