Healthcare industry, meet the strong arm of Wall Street. A group of U.S. and European giants, including Intel, Wal-Mart and British Petroleum, plan to take a major element of the U.S. healthcare IT system into their own hands, building a giant joint data warehouse linking hospital, physician and pharmacy data. The giant firms expect doctors and hospitals to make nice and share data with them, or risk losing their business. Such requirements aren't very surprising: Wal-Mart, for one, is …
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