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...reclaiming customers looking for cosmetics, skin care and over-the-counter drugs, according to WSL Strategic Retail's How America Shops 2008 survey. Walgreens leads the drugstore sector in sales and profits with 1,600 24-hour stores (out of their 6,237 outlets), convenient locations and easy online access. In the first quarter of 2008, the Deerfield, Ill.-based chain reported a 5.5% increase in earnings and a record $14 billion in sales...
...long time there were portions of the country that you could not go to at all unless you were embedded with the U.S. military,” Paley said. “Not because the military is purposefully restricting access. It’s just much safer...
Only 14% of U.S. medical practices currently keep electronic records, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS hopes to achieve 50% adoption by 2014, and President Bush has also called for the majority of Americans to have electronic access to such records by that year. Studies consistently show that going digital can reduce health-care costs and help prevent medical mistakes. Each year prescription errors alone kill about 7,000 patients and cost the U.S. health-care system as much as $6 billion. Many of these mistakes could be avoided with electronic records, says Dr. Steve Klasko...
...late February, Google announced plans to launch an online database where patients can easily store and maintain health information. The website, called Google Health, mirrors similar efforts by rival Microsoft and Revolution Health Group, led by AOL founder Steve Case. All three products will allow patients to access records from anywhere in the world, letting the user upload medical records from one health-care provider and then easily share them with another physician or hospital - a capability more and more health-care providers are looking to adopt. Tullman says Allscripts plans to collaborate with both Microsoft and Google, particularly...
...actually more secure. Morrow is CIO of Atlanta's North Fulton Family Medicine group, whose 11 doctors adopted electronic records in 1998. "With paper, what's to stop the night janitor or front desk clerk from reading your record?" Morrow says. "Our charts all require passwords to limit access." Plus, Morrow adds, with Allscripts, which gives health-care providers online access to records and enables them to automate everyday tasks such as billing, scheduling and writing prescriptions and patient charts, the practice saves as much as $33 per patient visit and has all but eliminated overtime for its physicians...