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McKESSON CORPORATION
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edical—Surgical Solutions
Our Medical-Surgical Solutions segment provides medical-surgical supply distribution, equipment, logistics and other services to healthcare
providers that include hospitals, physicians’ offices, surgery centers, extended care facilities, homecare and occupational health sites through a
network of 36 distribution centers within the U.S. This segment is the nation’s third largest distributor of medical-surgical supplies to hospitals
(acute care) and is the leading provider of supplies to the full range of alternate-site healthcare facilities, including physicians’ offices, clinics
and surgery centers (primary care), long-term care facilities and homecare sites (extended care). Through a variety of technology products and
services geared towards the supply chain, Medical-Surgical Solutions is focused on helping its customers operate more efficiently while
providing the industry’s most extensive product offering, including its own private label line. This segment also includes ZEE® Medical, North
America’s leading provider of first aid, safety, and training solutions, providing services to industrial and commercial customers. This business
offers an extensive line of products and services aimed at maximizing headcount productivity and minimizing the liability and cost associated
with workplace illnesses and injuries.
Provider Technologies
Our Provider Technologies segment provides a comprehensive portfolio of software, automation, support and services to help healthcare
organizations improve patient safety, reduce the cost and variability of care, and better manage their resources and revenue stream. The
segment markets its products and services to integrated delivery networks, hospitals, physician group practices, home health providers, and
managed care providers. Approximately sixty percent of hospital-based integrated delivery networks in the U.S. use one or more products from
this segment. The segment also sells its solutions internationally through subsidiaries and/or distribution agreements in Canada, the United
Kingdom, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and Israel.
The product portfolio for the Provider Technologies segment is organized into three major solutions sets — clinical solutions, business
performance solutions and automation solutions — with a variety of subsets of these solutions designed to address specific healthcare business
issues (such as, physician access, image-enabled care, electronic health records and medication safety). To ensure that organizations achieve
the maximum value for their information technology investment, the Provider Technologies segment also offers a wide range of services to
support the implementation and use of solutions as well as assist with business and clinical redesign, process re-engineering and staffing (both
information technology and back-office).
Clinical Solutions: The segment’s clinical solutions are designed to enable organizations to improve medication safety, accelerate physician
use of healthcare information technology, improve care team efficiency and reduce variability in healthcare quality and costs. The clinical
management solution set, known as Horizon Clinicals®, is built with architecture to facilitate integration and enable modular deployment of
systems. It includes a clinical data repository, document imaging, medical imaging, clinical decision support/physician order entry, point-of-
care documentation with bar-coded medication administration, enterprise laboratory, radiology and pharmacy, an emergency department
solution and a comprehensive ambulatory system that includes e-prescribing and electronic health records. Horizon Clinicals also includes
solutions to facilitate physician access to patient information such as a Web-based physician portal and wireless devices that draw on
information from the hospital’s information systems. In addition, the segment provides solutions to address patients’ needs for information both
inside and outside the hospital.
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