McKesson Health Solutions Visionaries to Speak at 19th Annual National Managed Health Care Congress

Dr. David Nace, vice president and chief medical officer at McKesson Health Solutions, will be a panelist at Tuesday’s discussion titled “The Challenges of Transparency.” The panel, which will also include executives from Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield and Cigna, will discuss the inherent challenges of transparency for improving healthcare’s bottom line, creating positive perceptions of payors and developing trust among consumers.

Dr. Ricardo Guggenheim, vice president of clinical content and design at McKesson Health Solutions, will give a talk on Wednesday titled “Consumer-Directed Healthcare: Impact on Industry Throughput, Doctor-Patient Dynamics and the Adoption of Next-Generation Technologies.” Based on his experiences at leading provider and payor organizations, Dr. Guggenheim will cover the history of consumer directed healthcare, its current status, questions it has raised, and its potential impact on the future of the industry, including how various constituents will need to adapt and the growing emphasis the trend places on quality and technology adoption.

For more information, please visit McKesson Health Solutions at Booth #104.

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McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK), currently ranked 16^th on the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs, streamlining processes and improving the quality and safety of patient care. Over the course of its 174-year history, McKesson has grown to provide pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management across the spectrum of care; healthcare information technology for hospitals, physicians, homecare and payors; hospital and retail pharmacy automation; and services for manufacturers and payors designed to improve outcomes for patients. For more information, visit us at www.mckesson.com.