Senior leader support, physician alignment and daily monitoring of analytics scorecards – all are key success factors cited by hospitals who recently attested to meet the Stage 1 Medicare criteria outlined under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Among those first-year strivers are hospitals that use the Horizon Clinicals® and Paragon® electronic health [...]
McKesson Customers Share ARRA Stage 1 Keys to Success with Peers
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HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley to Advance Patient Safety with Complete McKesson Clinical System
August 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley recently announced that it will upgrade its existing electronic health record (EHR) technology systems as part of its focus on enhancing healthcare quality and safety for the communities it serves in upstate New York. Headquartered in Kingston, N.Y., the three-hospital system plans to expand its relationship with McKesson by implementing [...]
Caregivers Enhance Patient Care In Hospitals, Physician Offices with McKesson Solutions
May 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
McKesson today announced that three more community hospitals have chosen the company’s Practice Partner® Patient Records electronic health record (EHR) and practice management solution for their employed/affiliated physicians. The hospitals, which also selected the Paragon® hospital information system (HIS) to automate care processes in their inpatient settings, aim to enhance communication and care coordination among [...]
Physician Practices Gain EHR Connectivity, Interoperability with New McKesson Offering
February 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
McKesson today announced Practice Partner Connect™, providing an interoperability platform for physician practices to more securely exchange information with other practices, patients, hospitals, and payors. The new platform is part of Version 9.3.3 of Practice Partner®, McKesson’s award-winning electronic health record (EHR) and medical billing software solution for physician practices. As office-based physicians focus on achieving [...]
New KLAS report profiles the EMR vendor solutions tailored to hospitals with 50 or fewer beds
August 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Facing the same meaningful use deadlines as larger organizations but with only a few viable vendor options, critical access hospitals are eager for more IT power, according to a report from KLAS. The new report, “Closing the IT Gap: Critical Access to 50 Bed Hospitals”, highlights the experiences of more than 300 healthcare professionals at [...]
McKesson Recognizes Five Hospitals for Healthcare IT Excellence with 2009 VIP Award
July 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Five healthcare organizations are recipients of McKesson’s 2009 VIP Award for their accomplishments in using healthcare information technology (IT) to improve quality, safety and efficiency. The winning organizations achieved significant results in a variety of areas, including medication and laboratory safety, use of electronic health records (EHRs), care team connectivity across facilities and states, and [...]
McKesson offers new EHR option
May 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Today McKesson announced the availability of Medisoft® v15, the latest version of its industry-leading practice management (PM) solution used by more than 70,000 providers in small physician offices. With the new release, McKesson also announced the availability of Medisoft Clinical, which combines the PM capabilities of Medisoft v15 with the company’s Practice [...]
