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McKesson Corp
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- type of organization: public
- size: colossal (over 10,000 people)
- website: www.mckesson.com
- development offices:
# Is the largest pharmaceutical distributor in North America. Every day we distribute one-third of the medicines used in North America, supplying more than 25,000 U.S. healthcare locations from Wal-Mart to the Department of Veterans Affairs to community pharmacies. # Is the nation's leading healthcare IT company, with software and hardware technology installed in more than half of the nation's hospitals with greater than 200 beds. # Provides decision support software to help physicians determine the best possible clinical diagnosis and treatment plans for patients. # Develops and installs electronic systems that eliminate the need for paper prescriptions and paper medical records and provides physicians with easy and secure online access to patient information. # Helps prevent more than 96,000 medication errors every week through bar-code scanning technology that helps to ensure the right patient gets the right drug at the right time.
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many acquisitions and now offshore ramp up
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January 29, 2007
Formally called HBOC (HBO & Company) and later renamed to McKesson Corp after some bad press from some bad financial reporting scandals. This review is focused on its MPT division (McKesson Provider Technologies) which focuses on healthcare software development.
HBOC (HBO&Company) did a lot of buying in the 90's and gobbled up most of the health care development companies. There are so many it is hard for me to list but some interesting ones I more...