Solving Patient Safety and Medication Safety Challenges with Software, Automation, Packaging, Distribution and Consulting Solutions

The McKesson Medication Safety Advantage^SM is a comprehensive solution that helps ensure patient safety and medication safety at each stage of medication management—prescribing, transcribing, administering, dispensing and monitoring. As the only single-source provider that integrates software, automation, packaging, distribution and consulting solutions, we help health care organizations create a complete medication safety strategy.

In fact, many McKesson customers have created a strong culture of patient safety with process redesign and technology that enables better collaboration and communication among caregivers. These organizations have invested in patient safety technology—from bar code medication dispensing and medication administration systems to electronic prescribing, documentation and alerting solutions—and have enviable results.

Breadth and Depth

As you launch or broaden your patient safety and medication safety strategy, consider this: McKesson is the nation's leading health care IT services company and provides the greatest depth and breadth of pharmaceuticals and technologies that make health care safer while reducing costs. We've been at the forefront of major breakthroughs in medication management and pioneered:

• Bar-code scanning at the point of care
• Robotic drug dispensing
• Computer-generated medication administration record
• First wearable bar-code scanning device for pharmaceutical distribution

As part of our comprehensive offering, we develop and install:

• Pharmacy robotics, workflow solutions, bar-code medication administration, clinical alerting and more. Customers use our proven systems to:
  • Dispense more than 325 million error-free medication doses annually
  • Safely scan and administer more than 100 million medications at the bedside every year
  • Issue nearly 1 million warnings weekly
  • More than 700,000 medication errors prevented weekly at 145 hospitals
• Electronic systems that eliminate paper prescriptions and paper medical records. Physicians and other clinicians use our systems to:
  • Process more than 12 million electronic prescriptions annually
  • Securely access patient information more than 4 million times a month
  • Conduct nearly 60 million medical imaging exams annually
  • More than 120,000 physicians log on to access, review and/or complete patient charts
  • Make safer, more collaborative care decisions

Contact us today at 1.866.McK.SAFE to learn more about the McKesson Medication Safety Advantage^SM.