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Article: Technology harnessed to improve the system.(Health Care)
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- Mass Market Retailers
- Article date:
- March 23, 2009
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- One of the most frequent criticisms of the nation's health care system is its technological backwardness.
As a first step toward remedying that weakness, Wal-Mart in 2006 partnered with several other major employers to form a nonprofit organization dubbed Dossia to develop a system of electronic personalized health records (PHRs). Other participating companies included Intel, BP (formerly British Petroleum), Pitney Bowes Inc., Applied Materials Inc. and Cardinal Health Inc.
During a speech in 2007, Scott described the challenge. "We are caught in between two worlds: We have 21st century providers, devices and treatments but a ...