Archive for December, 2008

Patient and Medication Safety

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

The leading provider of patient safety and medication safety solutions.

Ever since 2000 when the Institute of Medicine released its watershed report claiming that more than 2 million serious medical errors occur annually, the health care industry has been trying to improve patient safety. McKesson’s comprehensive patient safety framework provides the blueprint to help move the health care quality needle in the right direction.

In addition, by offering solutions that stretch far beyond the general “First, do no harm” notion espoused in the Hippocratic Oath, McKesson is enabling health care organizations to make good on the following patient safety definition:

Patient safety is the sustained, proactive process of identifying, avoiding and rapidly resolving errors, omissions, mishaps and miscommunications that could affect a patient’s healing, health or well-being at any point, at any time, in any care setting.

McKesson Surgical Solutions

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

Leading provider of operating room and surgery scheduling solutions, improving patient safety.

Focusing on the operating room, McKesson’s surgical solutions give you the power to perform at a whole new level. McKesson’s surgical solution integrates surgical scheduling, perioperative charting, medication administration and anesthesia documentation with your core clinical and business data.

McKesson’s Horizon Surgical Manager automates perioperative charting across all phases of care—pre-admission testing (PAT), pre-op, intra-op and post-op—eliminating redundant data collection and illegible handwriting.