McKesson is constantly working to transform healthcare. Every day, healthcare organizations are turning to our experts to learn how healthcare IT can help them improve their clinical, financial and operational performance. And every day, customers achieve results using our systems. This page shares a few samples of press clippings for McKesson and our customers.

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December 2008

Relationship ROI, Healthcare Informatics
In this cover story focused on vendor-provider co-development projects, St. Vincent’s Health System (Birmingham, Ala.) and McKesson’s Horizon Enterprise Visibility are featured.

November 2008

Paragon Rising, Healthcare Informatics
The article outlines how the rebirth of McKesson’s Paragon product provides lessons for vendors and hospitals.

Patience Is a Virtue, Health Data Management
An article on the benefits that Spokane Internal Medicine, a 10-physician group in Spokane, Wa., is experiencing as a result of using McKesson’s Practice Partner to improve productivity and enhance care.

October 2008

Room with a View, MetroMode (Detroit online magazine)
Oakwood Hospital’s success using Horizon Enterprise Visibility is showcased.

New Bar-Code Technology At Medical Center Hospital, NewsWest9
The Admin-Rx go-live of Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, Texas is profiled.

Hearts and Minds, Healthcare Informatics
Good Samaritan Hospital discusses their success with McKesson’s cardiology PACS and Joe Biegel, McKesson, discusses the challenges cardiology PACS present to hospitals.

HIS/PACS for Community Hospitals, Imaging Economics
Community hospitals face unique challenges. For one thing, these institutions can be short-staffed—and that includes IT implementation staff. Nueterra Healthcare, Leawood, Kan, discusses its choice of McKesson’s community HIS, PACs, and EHR.

September 2008

Strengthening the STEM: McKesson Develops Ties to Georgia Students, Business to Business
Kevan Torgerson, president of Customer Operations for MPT, discusses his participation in a panel to highlight the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) needs of today’s students.

August 2008

EHR A Saint at Volunteer Practice, Health Data Management
Teresa Simms, health services program manager at St. Vincent, talks about how the Practice Partner EHR and practice management solution has helped cut upfront and data entry costs, helped save 80 hours per year in preparation for reporting, and has allowed the center to nearly double its annual patient load because of improved efficiency.

April 2008

Following recent announcements by Aetna and CIGNA HealthCare that the two have expanded reimbursement coverage nationwide for RelayHealth's online consultation service, media attention has been widespread. Some of the major coverage includes:

NBC's TODAY Show – approx. 5 minute physician interview
National Public Radio's Morning Edition – approx.5 minute interview with Ken Tarkoff
CBS Morning News – approx. 2 minute morning show interview with RelayHealth screenshots
Chicago Tribune – "Doctors Visits Go Online"
Medical Economics – "Aetna and Cigna want to Pay You for Online Visits"

March 2008

The Nuts and Bolts of Mobile Computing, Acuity Care Technology
John L. Waller, MD, director of informatics and professor at MUSC, says using tablet PCs enables nurses to spend more time interacting with patients and less time entering patient information. MUSC has seen an 18% improvement in patient vital sign charting accuracy, and a significant reduction in charting delays with McKesson's Horizon Clinicals™ applications.

February 2008

The Value of Speaking the Same Language, Health Data Management
Michael Kappel, senior vice president for government and industry relations, discusses why it is necessary to define terms in federal and state policies regarding health IT.

January 2008

McKesson Migrates to Linux as Boost to Patient Safety, InformationWeek
Michael Simpson, senior vice president and general manager at MPT, discusses how converting our applications to a Linux platform helps save our customers money.

Bloomington Hospital created a regional network for radiology services with a single-vendor RIS/PACS, ADVANCE for Health Information Executives
Bloomington Hospital’s CIO Mark McMath discusses reasons Bloomington picked McKesson as their single-vendor for PACS and the results they’ve experienced since the implementation.