In 2009, KLAS reported nearly all software-hosting vendors were performing better than third-party hosting firms. Since then, service firms ACS and Dell have had significantly improved satisfaction scores, according to the company’s recent report: Application Hosting: Dynamic Changes Bring Providers Better Options. They now rival the traditionally highly performing software vendors Cerner, GE, McKesson, and Siemens. ACS […]
Dave Souerwine, President, McKesson Provider Technologies, Chapter 2
McKesson Horizon, McKesson Paragon And Mental Labels
“I’m sorry, I’m not trying to be difficult, but I still don’t understand.” Though I don’t recall the year, I distinctly remember uttering those words at a past HIMSS conference during one of the countless “speed-dating” sessions journalists have with vendors. Perhaps because these meet-and-greets are so short, they take on a very intense “get-to-the-point” […]
Dave Souerwine, President, McKesson Provider Technologies, Chapter 1
PODCAST: One-on-One w/St. Claire Regional Medical Center VP of IS & CIO Randy McCleese, Chapter 1
After 14 years with St. Claire Regional Medical Center, you might think Randy McCleese has done it all, but you’d be wrong. That’s because the CIO is just now embarking on a new core clinical install with a vendor he hasn’t worked with before — Meditech. And McCleese isn’t dipping his toe into the Meditech […]
Ask the Pros: Best Critical Access Hospital Vendor?
QUESTION: “What vendors would you recommend for a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) of 25 beds?” That’s easy: just look at vendors whose client base consists mainly of 25 bed CAHs: The “Big 3” are CPSI, Healthland and HMS, who each have hundreds of CAH facilities each; indeed, these three small-hospital leaders have few clients over 100 beds in size! They feature strong integration, offering almost every financial and clinical application, obviating costly interfaces. CPSI even has a self-developed PACS and T & A system. HMS just bought superb ED vendor “MedHost,”
Somerset Taps McKesson for Pharmacy
Somerset Hospital, a 150-bed facility in Pennsylvania, is tapping McKesson’s PROmanager-Rx to automate the dispensing of tablets, capsules, and other oral solid medications that come directly from drug manufacturers in unit-dose, bar-coded form. Somerset, already a user of McKesson’s Paragon HIS, expects PROmanager-Rx to automate dispensing for approximately 80 percent of its daily scheduled patient […]
Citrus Sweet on McKesson
Inverness, Fla.-based Citrus Memorial Health System has selected McKesson’s Paragon community HIS to be implemented on a remote-hosted basis. The hospital is also using McKesson for document management and medical imaging, along with CPOE. Additionally, Citrus plans to connect with physicians in its outpatient clinics using McKesson’s Practice Partner ambulatory EHR. With more than 150 […]