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McKesson

McKesson Provider Technologies is a healthcare IT company, dedicated to delivering comprehensive solutions with the power to make a difference in how you provide healthcare. McKesson’s capabilities extend beyond healthcare IT software to include automation and robotics, business process re-engineering, analytics, and other services that connect healthcare providers, physicians, payors and patients across all care settings.

Orchestrate Healthcare supports the following McKesson Modules:

Orchestrate Healthcare provides the following McKesson Services:

System Implementations and Upgrades
Integration
Project Management
Project Planning
Training and Documentation
Go-Live Support
Testing
Configuration
Process Redesign
Among others...

Paragon Community Hospital Information Systems

Paragon is an industry-leading hospital information system rated the #1 community HIS by KLAS in 2006-2009*. When you combine Paragon with Horizon Medical Imaging™ and Horizon Patient Folder™ solutions, you can create a complete electronic health record (EHR) solution for your critical access, rural or community hospital.

Paragon includes a complete suite of integrated applications that addresses patient safety, financial and revenue cycle management, regulatory and HIPAA compliance and more.

Business Office and Administration

Paragon® Patient Accounting
Paragon® General Ledger
Paragon® Accounts Payable
Paragon® Materials Management
Paragon® Payroll
Paragon® Patient Supply Charging
Paragon® Fixed Assets
Paragon® WebStation for Executives
Paragon® Automated Daily System Close

Patient Access

Paragon® Referrals and Authorization
Paragon® Resource Scheduling
Paragon® Patient Registration

Health Information Management

Paragon® Medical Records
Paragon® Medical Records Transcription
Paragon® Utilization Review
Paragon® Release of Information

Clinicals

Paragon® WebStation for Physicians
Paragon® Order Management
Paragon® Care Plans
Paragon® Clinical Assessments
Paragon® Medication Administration
Paragon® Therapeutic Results Reporting

Ancillary Departments

Paragon® Operating Room Management
Paragon® Inpatient Physical Rehabilitation
Paragon® Radiology Management
Paragon® Laboratory Management
Paragon® Mobile Phlebotomy
Paragon® Microbiology

Horizon Medical Imaging

McKesson‘s medical imaging software solutions, Horizon Medical Imaging (PACS) integrates with radiology information systems (RIS), as our combination of Horizon Medical Imaging and McKesson Radiology Manager™ 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.

McKesson Radiology Manager

The McKesson Radiology Manager™ workflow management software solution for PACS administration tracks and manages patients, exams and charges to improve the administrative and clinical workflow of radiology departments. Through the McKesson radiology information system (RIS) radiologists, technologists, administrators and other clinical stakeholders have immediate access to everything needed to efficiently and cost-effectively manage the diagnostic imaging process.

The integrated, feature-rich RIS/PACS software solution includes a full range of modules for radiology departments and medical imaging facilities of all sizes and complexities, including departmental scheduling, order management, dictation and signature, charge preparation, system administration, and management reporting tools.

Horizon Patient Folder

Horizon Patient Folder is a document imaging system that gives physicians, HIM personnel and other hospital staff anytime, anywhere access to review, analyze, code and complete electronic charts in their electronic medical records system. It allows HIM departments to become "virtual," giving staff the ability to work remotely while letting authorized hospital personnel view patient records electronically. In addition, it provides physicians with secure online access from their home, office or at the hospital, further streamlining clinical and HIM workflow.

Physician Solutions

McKesson’s physician clinical solutions were designed by physicians for physicians with a simple philosophy...make it simple, make it fast and deliver real-world value and benefits. McKesson builds solutions that work like a physician thinks—delivering access to information and decision support in an intuitive, relevant manner, seamlessly fitting into their workflow to reduce medication errors and improve patient safety.

Horizon Ambulatory Care

Horizon Ambulatory Care™ is a Web-based, workflow-driven ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) solution that automates the clinical functions of a physician practice:

Prescription management
Diagnostic order entry
Results reporting
Encounter documentation
Clinical workflow management

Horizon Cardiology

Horizon Cardiology™ is a complete cardiovascular information solution (CVIS) for cath lab, hemodynamics monitoring, echocardiography, vascular ultrasound and nuclear cardiology. CVIS diagnostic digital imaging management, archiving, procedure reporting and workflow management functions enable healthcare organizations to meet all cardiac department needs.

Horizon Care Alerts

The system provides timely, role-based warnings that help clinicians “connect the dots” and ensure efficient responses to changing patient conditions. Organizations can define rules for alerts or reports based on specific conditions. Rules, written in industry-standard Arden syntax, are easily shared across institutions. System tools simplify importing of rules and editing to adapt to your organization’s needs.

Horizon Emergency Care

The Horizon Emergency Care™ emergency department information system (EDIS) can improve your emergency department’s performance by enhancing communication among care team members, optimizing department workflow and ensuring appropriate reimbursement. An integrated component of the Horizon Clinicals™ suite of solutions, Horizon Emergency Care EDIS features patient tracking, knowledge-driven documentation and coding intelligence, CPOE (computerized physician order entry), discharge information and management reporting tools.

Horizon Expert Notes

Horizon Expert NotesTM, part of the Horizon Clinicals® suite of solutions, improves physician efficiency and satisfaction by integrating physician inpatient documentation, such as computerized physician order entry (CPOE), with other McKesson clinical applications and clinical workflow. This tool completes the inpatient physician workflow loop, creating a seamless, end-to-end solution.

Horizon Expert Orders

The Horizon Expert Orders™ computerized physician order entry (CPOE) solution supports the delivery of safe, efficient care by ensuring that comprehensive and timely information about the patient's condition is available to all caregivers. Rather than simply automating the order entry process, Horizon Expert Orders enhances care team communication while supporting an efficient workflow that encourages clinician adoption of the CPOE technology.

Horizon Optical Imaging

The Horizon Optical Imaging™ solution supported by PACS is a unique product that enables clinicians to take an analog optical device, such as an endoscope, and use it as a DICOM modality to capture still and cine images. As a result, diagnostic specialists across the healthcare enterprise can digitally automate a wide array of images. McKesson’s Horizon Medical Imaging™ picture archiving and communication system (PACS ) supports image storage, archiving and viewing of all image modality types.

The Horizon Optical Imaging solution is part of McKesson’s industry leading enterprise medical imaging and information management portfolio, which provides solutions for medical imaging specialties and departments across the healthcare enterprise.

Horizon Surgical Manager

Connecting through technology and automation, McKesson’s integrated surgery information system solution gives you the ability to bridge your operating room to your enterprise scheduling, surgical services, supply chain, ERP/back-office and performance management systems. Additionally, we provide implementation and training, system optimization and health care consulting services to ensure optimal ROI from your investment in McKesson. Our surgical solutions empower you to effectively manage your operating room (OR) business and increase your patient safety and financial outcomes.

Horizon Surgical Manager add-on product modules:

Perioperative Charting
Anesthesia Documentation
Patient Tracking
Physiological Recording
Inventory Control

Horizon Physician Portal

With a single sign-on, the HorizonWP® Physician Portal Web gateway provides physicians with secure access to data from across the enterprise including inpatient and outpatient information as well as personalized views according to their workflow needs. Both McKesson and non-McKesson source system applications can be accessed from all settings of care.

Patient Accounting and Processing

McKesson offers comprehensive patient accounting systems to help you reduce the cost of billing and improve your receivables management process through streamlined automation. McKesson features patient accounting products for each of the hospital information systems.

Star Patient Accounting

An integral component of McKesson’s health care revenue cycle solution, the STAR™ Patient Accounting system automatically monitors the collection of billing information from patient registration, insurance verification, utilization review and medical records.

Series Patient Accounting

Series Patient Accounting system automatically monitors the collection of billing information from patient registration, insurance verification, utilization review and medical records.

HealthQuest Patient Accounting

The HealthQuest Patient Accounting receivables management system provides an effective way to retrieve all the detail needed to execute billing and accounts receivable functions — regardless of patient type — including charges, credits, payments, adjustments, memos, third parties billed/paid, follow-up, claims denial management, customer service and bad-debt transactions. Throughout this process, the system offers many controls for maintaining data integrity and produces an automatic audit trail for every transaction.

Revenue Cycle Management

Revenue cycle solutions that extend the capabilities of your hospital information systems are the key to improving access management, responding to healthcare consumerism, accelerating cash collection and improving payor performance.

Access Management

McKesson's RelayHealth business provides a clearinghouse that supports the entire revenue cycle, including real-time access to insurance eligibility and address/credit information checking prior and after care delivery; claims compliance and submission; remittance advice; and electronic and paper patient billing.

Payment Advisor™ - Verifies patient demographic information and checks the patient’s credit, and then uses this information to assign the patient into user-defined financial categories
Charity Advisor™ - Streamlines administrative processes for un-insured and under-insured patients by identifying patients that may qualify for charity or uninsured discounts in compliance with your existing credit and collection policy
Medicaid Advisor™ - Identifies patients who are likely to qualify for Medicaid-funded health services based on your state’s (and/or nearby states’) regulations.
Real-Time Eligibility - Reduces the likelihood of bad debt write-offs by providing quick, online confirmation of patient insurance and benefit coverage retrieved directly from the payor.

Enterprise Revenue Management

With enterprise revenue management, health care organizations use software, services and connectivity of key health care stakeholders: hospitals, payors, financial institutions, physicians and consumers to completely reinvent the way they manage and collect revenue.

Laboratory Solutions

McKesson's Horizon Lab integrated laboratory information system (LIS) meets both the clinical and business performance needs of today's laboratory, as well as enables labs to meet the demands of the rapidly changing healthcare environment. The comprehensive, scalable solution suite seamlessly supports hospital, reference and hybrid laboratory business models of all sizes, from single site to multifacility.

In addition, Horizon Lab integrates the lab, pharmacy and point of care, supporting clinical decision support with real-time sharing of critical patient data. Through integration with McKesson's Clinical Performance Analytics, Horizon Lab software supports laboratory administrators' need to monitor, manage and improve business performance.

Horizon Anatomic Pathology

Built from the ground up by McKesson for pathologists, histologists and cytologists, Horizon Anatomic Pathology™, uses an expert workflow engine, embedded dictation, bar code positive patient sample identification and other industry-leading technologies to enhance patient safety and improve diagnostic processes.

Horizon Lab

Horizon Lab automates the entire laboratory process, including order entry, point-of-care specimen management, analytic operations, information distribution, billing and business performance management.

The solution suite also includes:

Horizon Blood Bank™ for transfusion
Horizon MobileCare™ Phlebotomy for patient safety
HorizonWP® Outreach for Lab
Horizon Lab™ Financials
Horizon Anatomic Pathology

Horizon Lab Financials

Horizon Lab™ Financials, a laboratory information system, empowers laboratories to manage and optimize their outreach or reference business, including maximizing reimbursement, decreasing collection times and predicting, managing and monitoring profitability. More comprehensive and easier to navigate than legacy billing systems, Horizon Lab Financials lab software includes these powerful tools: pricing, billing and collections; sales team and client management; and profitability analysis, monitoring and management.

Horizon MobileCare Phlebotomy

Horizon MobileCare™ Phlebotomy is a lab information system (LIS) that helps reduce the leading source of laboratory errors by providing positive patient and specimen identification at the point of care. The lab software solution enhances patient safety by accurately identifying the patient and the appropriate lab test and ensuring that patient lab specimens are correctly bar-coded and labeled. Horizon MobileCare Phlebotomy also improves laboratory efficiency by automating the documentation of specimen collection data.

Horizon Outreach for Lab

HorizonWP® Outreach for Lab offers the tools to capture and maintain customers in the competitive laboratory market. Fully integrated with the Horizon Lab™ information system (LIS), the solution enables electronic ordering and results reporting, medical necessity checking and integration to physician practice electronic medical records.

Horizon Blood Bank

Horizon Blood Bank™ lab software automates the management and tracking of the entire blood transfusion cycle—from product receipt to compatibility verification to patient transfusion.