Portable health records

According to BNET Healthcare, many companies are trying to find a way for their employees to create a portable health record. They're turning to the company Dossia to help them do it. Some of the companies investing in this are AT&T, Applied Materials, BP America, Cardinal Health, Intel, Pitney Bowes, sanofi-aventis, and Abraxis Bioscience. Both the employees of this company and the general public would benefit from portable health records as the can help doctors provide better care because of the knowledge of their background. The article also points out that many companeis are intrested in portable heatlth record, but many companies are slow to jump on the offerings of Google and Microsoft.

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Sanofi-Aventis Pays $95.5M in a Federal Claim

According to this article in bizjournals, Sanofi-Aventis will pay $95.5 million to settle a federal claim that accuses Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. of underpaying drug rebates it was required to pay into Medicaid between 1995 through 2000. The Justice Dept claims that $49 million of the settlement will be paid to the federal government, $40 million will be paid to the states, and the remaining $6 million will go to heath providers.

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