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- LinuxWorld: Health care IT solutions
- At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, McKesson CIO Randal Spratt explains why his company deploys its health care applications on Linux. He says these applications are scalable, affordable on tight hospital budgets, and reliable--making better patient care possible.
- Videos 2008-08-05
- The Google backlash at HIMSS
- The gang at Modern Healthcare Online detected a notable backlash against Google during this week's HIMSS show. There was a "Little Red Hen" feeling about the complaints, an impression that hospitals have spent 40 years preparing this automation bill of fare but now the Googlers were going...
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- Doubling of VA's IT budget could tip the market
- Doubling of VA's IT budget could tip the marketHow's it going to go... this might be a clueMcKesson is number 3 of the top 100 Recipients of Federal Contract Awards for FY 2008 1Q. (http://tinyurl.com/27sr74)RE: Doubling of VA's IT budget could tip the marketThanks for the report.Good ClueI don't want...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-05
- Is Linux enough for open source medical advocates?
- Is Linux enough for open source medical advocates?Linux Vendor Lock-in?[i]without giving them the power to switch vendors which open source delivers naturally[/i]Is not Linux and Open Source supposed to do away with software Lock-in?Just a matter of time.Hospitals are one of the killing zones pardon the pun for proprietary software...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-11
- Is Linux enough for open source medical advocates?
- Very quietly McKesson, the largest of the proprietary vendors in the medical computing space, has been moving its product line to Linux. It's reached the point where McKesson now advertises its Red Hat Enterpise Healthcare Platform. The idea is to give hospitals some of the...
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Churchill Club: CIOs say budgets are up, hiring is up, outsourcing is up
- The CIOs of Google, Hasbro, Levi Strauss, and McKesson, said their IT budgets are up this year and they are investing in more revenue generating IT projects. The CIOs were part of a Churchill Club panel: CIO Agenda moderated by Dave Margulius, an IT analyst at Enterprise Insight. The Churchill...
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Web 2.0's "gigantic impact" on health care
- McKesson CIO Randall Spratt explains how the next generation of the Internet will lower costs and deliver patient data more efficiently than ever before. McKesson is America's oldest and largest healthcare services company. by Administrator
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- McKesson CIO: Randy Spratt - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Randy thanks for joining me. Randy Spratt: Dan it's a pleasure to be here. Dan Farber: Now Mckesson is an old company, since 1833 it's been in business, 88 billion dollars in revenue, twenty two and a half thousand people. And in...
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- McKesson: Delivering Timely Information for Faster Decision-Making
- McKesson operates in a highly competitive business to supply products, services, and information to the healthcare industry. McKesson needed to develop a sophisticated internal analytic system for its top executives who would deliver timely and accurate financial score card information on its competition. McKesson is committed to using open industry...
- Case studies 2003-11-01
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- LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.
- If there was one solid message to come from the opening keynotes at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, it is this: Now is the time. Illustrated through the lenses of two large, mainstream industries – financial services and health care – the first two presenters talked about ways...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- How important is Mirth?
- Fred Trotter recently decided to turn his regular talks on open source health computing into a series of blog posts. They are well worth looking at. His review calls Mirth the most important interoperability project out there. This despite what he acknowledges are weaknesses in the underlying...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Can health care make voice interfaces viable?
- One of the big surprises in my career, watching technology develop, has been the failure of voice interfaces. (Image from Paramount.) Chalk it up to accents and the complexity of English. Listen to a Southerner or a Scotsman and the problem becomes obvious. Better yet try listening...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Will market reject Sun's open source vision?
- Will market reject Sun's open source vision?Sun needs to make moneyWhile it's fine to talk about "building communities" and such, I still fail to see how Open Source enables Sun to make money. Jonathan has never provided any details, rather he talks in slogans--just like a politician.This is not...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Doctor iPhone, I presume?
- The ClearHealth guys were so anxious to brag on their iPhone customer story they didn't even wait on the press release. Instead customer happiness guru David Uhlman dragged Shawn Bellina, CTO of Clearview Cancer Institute in Huntsville, Alabama, hiccups and all, to a quick phone conference this afternoon....
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Windows or open source is not the question
- Over at another publication an entrepreneur asks a rather silly question, whether his server-side application should be developed with Windows or open source. This is not even a question. Windows or Linux, that's a question. Closed source or open, that's a question. (Picture from Boycott Novell.) Asking...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?
- Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?...And people wonder why I hate corporations so much! Here is a perfectly functioning system of which I am a member of as a disabled veteran and now because of greed, we have to have our services jeopardized?!This is total bullsh!t and exactly...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Open source tries again with health care
- Last year was the worst of times for open source in health care. The undercapitalized Medsphere had to reorganize after tossing its founders for daring to treat their open source promises seriously. Misys tossed some code over the side and called it an open source strategy. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Microsoft gets its first award for HealthVault
- Microsoft HealthVault has won its first industry award, from Frost & Sullivan, as the company ramps up the marketing of its hospital computing solutions. The award is a "Best Practices" honor for the HealthVault platform which, analyst Priyanka Gouthaman writes, gives Microsoft "a distinct early-mover advantage" to "gain...
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Eclipse co-founder Skip McGaughey on Open Health mission
- Skip McGaughey, who was the original co-chair of the Eclipse Foundation while at IBM, has a new mission, to bring that same open source collaboration to health care. McGaughey, who has been based in Asheville, NC since launching Eclipse, is the first head of the Open Health...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- HIMSS moving on interoperability roadmap
- One of the big problems in hospital computing has long been simple interoperability. Given the high sales cost and high value of a hospital sale, vendors resist this. Proprietary protections make the HIMSS show floor look like a trip back to the 1980s. There are big booths...
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
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- McKesson Corp.
- McKesson provides supply, information and care management products and services. As of Mar 31 2008, Co. had two reportable segments. Co.'s Distribution Solutions segment distributes...
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