Pitney Bowes, Wal-Mart and Intel are giving their employees the chance to use online personal medical records to better manage their health, and possibly reduce the companies' healthcare costs, Rachael King at BusinessWeek reports.

Employees--or a subset of employees--at these companies are using online tools to track their health and seek ways to improve it. They have access to a website that displays their own private data, including information from their doctors, pharmacies, labs and health insurance companies--but their employers do not have access to the information.

These three companies teamed up with Vanguard Health Systems to create a consortium called Dossia, which aggregates the health records, King reports. For the system to work, employees have to go to doctors who are willing to provide the data.

For more:
- see Rachael King's article at BusinessWeek

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