The Dossia e-health program once again...with all the legal battles and other issues that have plagued this program...not to mention being backed by a major insurer...well I think there are other potential programs that could help the consumer...there's still a big issue here with privacy and how soon before the records are no longer private...better to take things in to your own hands with a plan not involving and funding from the insurers...my opinion only...look for a PHR...BD
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 (NSDQ: INTC), British Petroleum, Pitney Bowes, Cardinal Health, Applied Materials (NSDQ: AMAT), AT&T (NYSE: T), and Sanofi-Aventis.
Dossia is partnering with Children's Hospital Boston in developing the e-health system, which is based on Indivo, a scalable, secure, open-source personal health record system that Children's Hospital built in 1998 for its patients.
Wal-Mart Is Piloting E-Health Record System -- Wal-Mart -- InformationWeek
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