Five large companies will provide an electronic medical record system for their employees to reduce the cost the hefty cost of health care. Applied Materials Inc., British Petroleum America Inc., Intel Corp., Pitney Bowes Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., are funding a nonprofit institute to develop “Dossia”, a Web-based electronic health record system, which can be used for storing health information of 2.5 million employees and departments. Companies are expected that the electronic record system would be available in mid 2007. Omnimedix Institute, a nonprofit organization in Portland, Ore is developing a Dossia, electronic health record system. According to J.D. Kleinke, chairman and CEO of Omnimedix, Dossia is a “hypersecure medical Internet”, which is designed for those people who have experience in building IT security for banking systems. Users can enter information into the Dossia system, or it will gather health information on behalf of the requesting users and store it in a database.

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