Surgical Solutions

Offering an Integrated, Comprehensive Approach to Managing the Operating Room

Surgeons benefit from improved operating room capacity and throughput

Focusing on patient safety in the  operating room, McKesson’s surgical solutions help you build comprehensive electronic health records, integrating surgical scheduling, perioperative charting, automated anesthesia record systems, and medication administration, with your core clinical and business data. The system also aids in meeting Joint Commission and other regulatory requirements, such as Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) measures and protocol and CMS core measures, to ensure patient safety.  The result? Caregivers get instant access to detailed, accurate information throughout the patient experience, helping you:

  • Foster patient safety in the operating room
  • Promote financial health
  • Measure operating room performance

McKesson surgical and OR management solutions offer an integrated, comprehensive approach to managing the operating room. From the point of scheduling, through all phases of perioperative care and back up to the nursing floor, the system seamlessly shares patient data, improving communication among caregivers and helping you achieve the level of patient safety you demand. All while optimizing revenue, controlling costs and meeting regulatory requirements.


McKesson helps you achieve surgical excellence with:

  • Comprehensive electronic health record (EHR)
  • Anesthesia management services and solutions
  • Operating room (OR) instrument management system
  • Supply and financial management
  • Perioperative charting
  • Surgical scheduling
  • Tissue/device implant management
  • Surgical tray and instrument management
  • Surgical benchmarking and analytics


Automate Perioperative Charting

McKesson's surgical management solution automates perioperative charting across all phases of care-pre-admission testing (PAT), pre-op, intra-op and post-op. By integrating the surgical care information into the patient's electronic health record (EHR), clinicians receive vital, real-time information at the point of care, helping you provide better, safer care in the operating room and on the floor. Information about fluids, medications, allergies, and other patient information that is vital to patient safety is instantly updated across settings of care to bolster safe decision making and reduce complications.

Optimize Capacity and Throughput

McKesson's surgical solution connects procedure scheduling and  OR management activity to areas of your organization that impact efficiency and finances, like supply management and patient accounting. Integration with enterprise-wide business applications helps you optimize operating room capacity and throughput, control resource utilization, lower supply costs and maximize revenue-all of which improve clinical and financial performance.

Leverage Benchmarking, Analytics and Reporting Tools

Finally, put all that comprehensive data capture to work for you using the system's powerful yet easy-to-use reporting capabilities. McKesson surgical solution offers unmatched benchmarking, analytics, reporting and scorecarding to help you measure and improve surgical performance. Monitor key performance indicators and respond proactively to opportunities to improve the productivity and profitability of your surgical services while enhancing patient safety in the operating room.

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