Leading provider of PACS and enterprise medical imaging solutions, improves decision-making and workflow.

McKesson’s Horizon Medical Imaging picture archiving and communication system (PACS) is an image and information management solution that enables hospitals and clinics to acquire, distribute and archive medical images and diagnostic reports across the enterprise.

Horizon Medical Imaging and Horizon Radiology Manager, McKesson’s integrated RIS/PACS streamlines radiology department workflow and improves radiologist efficiency by integrating images from multiple modalities with clinical patient data obtained. The RIS/PACS also improves patient safety and clinical decision making by removing the barriers to communication and providing referring physicians with patient images as part of a complete medical record.

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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.

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Provider of business intelligence solutions, reducing health care costs and improving quality.

Understanding the business of healthcare requires the ability to integrate point-of-care clinical data with administrative and financial data and to transform that raw data into actionable information. Having access to the right data at the right time helps managers and clinicians support the organization and its patients while improving health care quality performance.

McKesson’s solutions for performance management help identify quality improvement opportunities, reduce practice variability, lower costs, track progress and optimize resources to focus on your organization’s most critical goals.

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