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Executive summary
Company: McKesson Corporation
Founded: 1833
URL: http://www.mckesson.com/about-mckesson/who-we-are/
Industry: Healthcare
About: Founded in 1833, Headquartered in San Francisco, 76,000+ employees, two cores business segments: Distribution Solutions and Technology Solutions.
Services available: McKesson’s Relay Health business is the national services provider for Common Well, which currently offers: Person Enrollment, Record Location, Patient Identification and Linking, Data Query and Retrieval. Member companies continually evaluate incremental service expansion into different care settings for the benefit of patients and provider organizations.
McKesson Corporation is an American company distributing pharmaceuticals at a retail sale level and providing health information technology, medical supplies, and care management tools. The company had sales of $122 billion in 2012. McKesson is based in the United States and distributes health care systems, medical supplies and pharmaceutical products. Additionally, McKesson provides extensive network infrastructure for the health care industry; also, it was an early adopter of technologies like bar-code scanning for distribution, pharmacy robotics, and RFID tags. It is a Fortune Global 500 company, and the 5th highest revenue generating company in the United States
McKesson Businesses: Distribution solutions, U.S Pharmaceuticals, Medical-Surgical, Pharmacy systems, McKesson Canada, Celesio, technology Solutions, Business performance services, connected care and Analytics, Enterprise information Solutions.
McKesson experiencing an era of unprecedented amendment in health care. New technology, new services and new ideas are going to be required to deliver improved outcomes for businesses and patients. McKesson is at the forefront of that transformation. They work with health care organizations of all sorts to strengthen the health of their business, serving to them management prices, develop efficiencies and improve quality. They build essential connections that build health care smarter, making intelligent networks that expand access, cut back waste, and produce folks and knowledge nearer along. McKesson offer the business with the resources, support and technology it must produce new standards and a world of higher health.
McKesson delivers pharmaceutical and medical merchandise and business services to retail pharmacies and institutional suppliers like hospitals and health systems throughout North America and internationally. We also provide specialty pharmaceutical solutions for biotech and pharmaceutical manufacturers, likewise as apply management, technology and clinical support to medical specialty and different specialty practices. In addition, we deliver a comprehensive providing of aid merchandise, technology, instrumentation and related services to the non- hospital market as well as medical man offices, surgery centers, long-run care facilities and residential aid businesses.
Partnering: As a founding member of the Common Well Health Alliance®, a not-for-profit trade association of health IT companies dedicated to health IT interoperability, McKesson has taken a leadership position in driving person-centered interoperability that will ultimately improve health outcomes for providers and patients. 72% of the acute-care EHR market. 34% of the ambulatory care EHR market. Market leaders and innovators in laboratory, imaging, retail pharmacy, long-term care and more
McKesson is an industry lead in Pharmaceutical distribution in U.S and Canada, Medical- surgical distribution to alternate care sites, Generics pharmaceutical distribution, Business in clinical services and providers. 4th largest pharmacy chain with 4700+ retail pharmacies are member of McKesson HealthMart franchise. McKesson delivers 1/3rd of pharmaceuticals used each day in North America. More than 200,000 physicians use McKesson technology and services.
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