Education and Training


Education and Training

Focused Training Optimizes Application Adoption

You are investing in information technology (IT) to meet your organization’s strategic goals. Now you need to ensure your employees are trained to maximize its use to achieve Meaningful Use and ARRA’s mandates to track, manage and store patient data safely and provide the highest level of care.

The McKesson comprehensive, blended learning methodology is designed to address your training needs and, above all, to deliver results. We offer solutions ranging from instructor-led courses to the latest in e-learning to address the specific education needs of your hospital or office, while addressing such universal challenges as speed, scalability, retention and impact of training.

McKesson Knowledge-Rx™, our focused training solution, includes:

  • Training Optimization: Product Readiness Assessments, Training Plans
  • e-Learning: Web-based Training, Webinars, Self-Study Guides
  • Classroom Training: McKesson Facilities, Customer Site
  • Performance Support: Job Aids, Go-Live Roaming Education

Regardless of which prescription, our training methods ensure the right training, at the right time, to the right audience.

  • Implementation Team: McKesson-certified trainers educate your project team with in-depth, hands-on application knowledge to facilitate your system-build activities. We also offer classes to aid your staff in configuring and tailoring the system to your organization's needs.
  • End Users: Our consistent, repeatable, "just-in-time" application training delivers a more competent, confident and productive staff. Our end user web-based courses and performance support are available online 24/7. Customized end user training plans incorporate your policies and procedures into training, increase application use and adoption, and accelerate time to success.

Put our Knowledge Prescription to Work
for You

Your people are your most important asset; critical to your success and to the health of the people they care for every day. Ensure their success and the return on your IT investment with McKesson’s high-quality training experience.



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“McKesson solved the challenges of speed, scale and knowledge retention with training solutions that enabled our organization to roll out 26 applications in two hospitals simultaneously and achieve our business objectives of rapid time to value.”

Peggy Pollard, RN
Director, Clinical Informatics
Centra Health, Lynchburg, Va.