The Meaning of ‘Meaningful Use’

The final rules for demonstrating meaningful use are out.

To earn incentives, you must show meaningful use of a certified EHR.

We can show you how. Partner with McKesson, and we’ll help you show how an EHR makes a real difference in patient care.

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How Much Can Your Pharmacy Save?

Pre-packaged medications can save time and money.

How much can your hospital pharmacy save by automating unit-dose dispensing? Use this simple online tool to compare the costs of manual packaging of bulk medications vs. bar-coded, pre-packaged oral solids.

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Raising The Bar On Safety

…and lowering the incidence of medication errors

How did a Missouri hospital reduce "wrong patient" medication errors by 75%? Its nurses began using handheld bar-code scanners to verify the “five rights”—right patient, right drug, right dose, right route and right time.

Here’s their story

Looking for help improving financial, operational and clinical performance?

Improve performance throughout your hospital

Meet BoP: the Business of Pharmacy

Our proven approach to maximizing your hospital pharmacy’s financial performance, operational efficiency and patient care.

McKesson provides services and products to health care providers and payors. From pharmaceuticals and supplies to sophisticated medical workflow solutions, our offerings help customers reduce costs, streamline processes and, most importantly, improve patient care and medication safety.

Pharmacies

Drug purchase programs to pharmacy automation and software

Pharmacy automation and management software solutions from McKesson

Amid shrinking reimbursements, increasing regulation and encroaching competition, count on us to help you make your business more profitable while improving customer care and safety.

Among our solutions: brand-name and generic drug purchase programs; profit-enhancing management software; and our Health Mart community pharmacy franchise program.

Pharmacies

Learn more about how we empower:

Local pharmacies like yours are critical to your community and the health care system. Check out the programs, products and services to grow your business, enhance customer service, and strengthen your community presence.

In addition to ensuring safe, satisfied customers, you've got to manage margins, grow sales and streamline operations. Use our resources to enhance your chain's operational efficiency and financial performance.

In a competitive market, you need a partner with the scale and resources to help you manage margins, encourage loyalty and expand market share.

We offer:
- Packaging programs
- Pharmacy technology
- The industry's largest distribution network

We bring inpatient pharmacies the broadest products/services suite and deepest experience in healthcare.

Among our offerings:
- Technology
- Automation
- Packaging

We offer you the industry's broadest suite of top-rated
- Pharmaceutical distribution services
- Packaging and technology solutions

To run a safe, efficient, financially sustainable outpatient pharmacy.

Let us serve as your expert supply chain partner, with an unmatched suite of
- Distribution
- Operational solutions and
- Technical solutions.

We offer a breadth of services to streamline your supply chain, handle more patients, and reduce costs:

- Distribution
- Packaging
- Pharmacy technology and management

Customized distribution solutions and patient programs for specialty pharmaceuticals, backed by solid supply chain and risk management expertise.

Whether your pharmacy is focused on managing cost, productivity or patient adherence, count on us to deliver distribution, packaging and patient safety solutions that help you reduce costs and improve quality.

Want help improving your financial, operational and clinical performance?

It's in the Pharmacy.

See the evidence at our business of pharmacy resource center.

See the evidence

Pharmacies

Drug purchase programs to pharmacy automation and software

Providers

Health care IT solutions for hospitals, physicians and other providers

Electronic health records and healthcare IT solutions for health care practice management and physicians practice from McKesson

Improve financial performance and efficiency. Improve quality and patient safety. With proven health care IT and management solutions, we can help you run a healthy business.

Among our solutions:
- electronic health records (EHR) system
- computerized physician order entry (CPOE)
- nursing and pharmacy automation

Providers

Learn more about how we empower:

Ensuring patient safety and health care quality while running an efficient, profitable facility is a tall order. Electronic health records, nursing and pharmacy automation, and clinical and financial management solutions help improve medication error prevention, reduce nursing labor burden, streamline workflow and control revenue.

Your focus is improving your patients' quality of life. Our focus is to provide the supplies and solutions you need to run your practice– to help you improve practice management, enhance patient safety and implement electronic health records—so your business doesn't distract you from the business of providing care.

Rely on McKesson to provide you with the innovative technology as well as the pharmaceutical and medical supply solutions you need to manage your facility and stay competitive in your market.

Handle more patients with fewer resources. Improve care despite reimbursement caps.
We can help you with your medical supply and equipment needs and provide you with a host of technology and home care documentation solutions.

Attentive service, in-depth knowledge of your business, and a comprehensive suite of products and equipment. Look to the nation's #1 supplier of products and services to surgery centers. We're ready to support you.

Meaningful Use

Qualify for incentives through meaningful use of certified EHRs.

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Providers

Health care IT solutions for hospitals, physicians and other providers

Suppliers

Programs for drug, surgical and consumer product vendors

Pharmaceutical distribution, including consumer and pharmacy marketing programs, from McKesson

McKesson is committed to exploring opportunities with businesses who can provide us with exceptional services at competitive value and cost.

Please contact us and ask about our supplier diversity program.

Suppliers

Learn more about how we empower:

Successful pharmaceutical and specialty product distribution is our expertise. Partner with us for tools to increase sales and manage risk.
- Launch services
- Product safety programs
- Strategic distribution
- Merchandising
- Patient adherence programs

Partner with us to reach regional and independent pharmacies with greater ease and consistency.
- Marketing programs
- Launch services
- Distribution strategies

Our suppliers benefit from communication to their targeted sales teams and customers, a prioritized promotional calendar and expanded sales force access and incentives.

Analytical Lab Services

Ensure medication safety with drug stability and other analyses

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Suppliers

Programs for drug, surgical and consumer product vendors

Payors

Care and claims management solutions for public and private payors

Disease management and medical claims management solutions for the public and private sector from McKesson

For over 600 public and private sector organizations, we provide solutions to help reduce costs, improve care outcomes and demonstrate value to members and beneficiaries.

Among our solutions: evidence-based clinical decision support, advanced diagnostics management, disease management, care management, claims management and business intelligence.

Payors

Learn more about how we empower:

We understand the demands on government agencies to serve their constituents—Medicare, Medicaid, armed forces and veterans—while controlling costs. We're here to support you with:

- Claims management solutions
- Evidence-based clinical decision support
- Workflow software
- Care management services

We help payors succeed today and plan for the future with solutions that help you:

- Validate appropriateness of services
- Automate authorizations for advanced diagnostics and procedures
- Make claims payment decisions
- Harness the power of analytics
- Manage chronic diseases

How payors are preparing for health reform

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Payors

Care and claims management solutions for public and private payors