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Dossia is a Personal health record service offered by some of the largest employers in the United States. Along with Microsoft's HealthVault, Dossia is one of the largest PHR deployments in the world Unlike Microsoft's PHR effort, Dossia is based on open source software. Dossia released their API in summer of 2009. Dossia differs from traditional tethered PHR services by providing user access to health information regardless of health plan, employer, or physician. Users also have the ability to download their full record, in electronic form, at any time.
It is an initiative formed from the following companies:
- AT&T
- Applied Materials
- BP America
- Cardinal Health
- Intel
- Pitney Bowes
- Sanofi-aventis
- Walmart
- Abraxis BioScience
- Vanguard Health Systems
Dossia is formed by some of the largest employers in the United States with the intention of offering a PHR to its employees. Given the number of employees of these combined institutions, Dossia could be one of the largest PHR systems in the world.