Wal-Mart news from FierceHealthIT
NewsChopra takes health IT efficiency message to Silicon Valley
We know that federal CTO Aneesh Chopra is an advocate of using health IT to improve quality of care and save money, but now he's taking his message outside the healthcare arena. At the Web 2.0 Summit Read more...
Wal-Mart will market electronic medical records system
You know something's a commodity when the big W gets involved--so I guess EMRs have officially arrived. Wal-Mart Stores has set its sights on the scorching hot market for electronic health records, Read more...
TX Wal-Marts offer telemedicine clinics
In an interesting mashup of retail clinic and telemedical models, a group of Houston-based Wal-Marts will soon begin offering walk-in telemedical consults. The service is being offered by a Read more...
Marriott rolls out Web-based PHR to employees
Hotel operator Marriott has rolled out a Web-based PHR to 50,000 employees across the U.S. Marriott is doing the rollout after conducting a small pilot test with the PHR system, developed by Read more...
Wal-Mart, partners pilot Dossia PHR
After more than a year of wrangling--and one initial development effort gone bad--Wal-Mart and a team of fellow corporate giants are finally pilot-testing Dossia, their massive PHR effort. Right now, Read more...
Group says controlled-substance rules block e-prescribing
A new group of IT and pharma-related companies told Congress last week that if Drug Enforcement Administration rules regarding controlled-substance prescribing aren't changed, they could Read more...
A PHR turning point
So, as you'll see in this issue of FierceHealthIT, it appears that the giant PHR project sponsored by mega-employers like Intel, AT&T and Wal-Mart is back underway. Unlike some PHR versions Read more...
Giant employers move ahead with PHR project
While it was stalled for months by troubles with its original vendor of choice, the massive PHR project backed by the likes of Wal-Mart, AT&T, Sanofi-Aventis and Intel is back underway again. The Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Wal-Mart ponders EMRs for retail clinics; Leavitt checks out HIT in Africa; and much more...
> Rumor Mill: Who will become the EMR vendor of choice for the Read more...
Huge employee health record effort in jeopardy
Late last year, a group of giant U.S. and European companies announced they would build a Read more...
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