Wal-Mart, Intel launch e-health project
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Five large companies said they will begin next year to provide their employees access to an electronic medical record system that will be used to help reduce the hefty costs of health care.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Google and Intel threw their weight behind an initiative Tuesday to help blunt the impact of global warming by bringing greater energy efficiency to personal computers and servers.
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The technology at the $55 million facility allows doctors to access patient information -- including digital scans, lab results and prescription drug information -- from anywhere in the hospital, at home or off-site, using a wireless network.
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Ziff Davis - HP is working with specialists BearingPoint and OATSystems on RFID for Wal-Mart compliance and other retail implementation. Meanwhile, the major IBM competitor is building "domain knowledge" about RFID in manufacturing.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Tuesday it is expanding the number of health care plans it will offer its 1.3 million U.S. employees, including adding health care credits and $4 monthly prescriptions for any of 2,400 generic drugs.
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Two of America's largest health insurance trade groups released on Wednesday a model for personal online health records, a step toward the larger goal of making electronic health records available to all U.S. residents by 2014.
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Texas Plywood &amp; Lumber Co., a seller of homebuilding products with 130 workers, has adopted a Bush administration plan to reduce health-care costs that Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, has partnered with two Saudi Arabian software companies to develop an electronic version of Islam's holy book and a training computer for teachers packed with the government-approved curriculum for schoolchildren.
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$30m research hub for Ireland Intel is partnering with Irish universities to set up a digital health research centre that will investigate the challenges of independent living for the elderly.â¦
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A coalition of technology companies and environmental groups led by Google Inc. and Intel Corp. launched an initiative Tuesday to conserve electricity and curb global warming emissions by making the world's computers and servers more energy-efficient.
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Within five years, physicians could be able to access patients&#39; records from any hospital or doctors&#39; office in the state under a new ``eHealth&#39;&#39; initiative financed with an infusion
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Seeking to put Alzheimer&#39;s disease on the same footing as cancer and heart disease, health officials are embarking on a landmark initiative that regularly will scan the brains and analyze the bodily fluids of 800 people.
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A group of 33 firms, including Nokia and Philips, have unveiled the prototype of a portable heart monitor that would use sensors woven into underwear to warn patients before they suffer a stroke.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , AT&amp;T Inc., Intel Corp. , and Kelly Services Inc. joined forces with two labor unions in calling for an overhaul of the US healthcare system that would guarantee universal coverage by 2012.
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Finding a cure for a major disease like cancer or AIDS is among the lofty objectives of an initiative launched by IBM (NYSE: IBM). The tech giant is constructing a World Community Grid (WCG) and enlisting the help of the world's computer users.
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Nov. 16, 2004âStarting this week, US pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma will begin adding an RFID label to every 100-tablet bottle of the company&#39;s popular OxyContin pain reliever tablets to be shipped to Wal-Mart and drug wholesaler HD Smith.
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Baylor Health Care System has completed the first phase of an e-health project -- using integration tools to consolidate registration records at the hospitals in its network.