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Health kiosk a 'doc in a box'

January 2, 2005

HR Magazine: Automated health screening stations at Frank Fuentes' workplace are helping keep him off blood pressure medication and out of the doctor's office.

Fuentes, an office equipment coordinator at American Honda Motor Co. in Torrance, Calif., credits the noninvasive, computerized monitoring stations with giving him and other Honda employees the key to managing their own health: timely information.

Fuentes says he has used the screening stations consistently over the past decade to monitor his blood pressure and to get alerts when he has picked up weight. "I was on medication once before. They told me I couldn't get off it until I lost weight," Fuentes says, adding that he checks his blood pressure every few days now at one of the stations. "By doing the reading, I can tell whether I need to exercise."