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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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- GGZ NHN Improves Performance and Availability of McKesson's Electronic Patient Dossier Horizon GGZ
- GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord GGZ NHN wanted to improve primary system performance and stability of McKesson's electronic patient dossier, Horizon GGZ, and enable interactive operations by users while the organization runs batch processes, including monthly invoice runs and improve availability during planned and unplanned outages. The challenge was to achieve a more...
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?
- Not sure about your last question, i guess he would be the best person...to ask.I think that sage, GE, siemans and mckesson do have the experience necessary to make good decisions, but these are also the guys who make software for the healthcare field.Maybe their vested interest also includes self...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- IBM in health reform optimists club
- IBM in health reform optimists clubFeel Better Now? No.Indian Business Machines is part of the problem, not the solution. They are one of a handful of giant IT providers who will attempt to use lobbying to move any national health care discussion towards a solution based on their products. I...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-04
- Microsoft endorses standards for health IT
- Cerner, McKesson, and the other major market players will have enormous difficulty in meeting these goals, having to convert their installed base to the concept. Microsoft has a smaller installed base, and would not face those costs. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- Obama risks wasting billions on health IT
- Obama risks wasting billions on health ITBroadband duopolyThe broadband use problem is the result of Bell system machinations, asserts the Comment.For some reason, the Comment doesn't mention cable, which had a head start in providing broadband.Perhaps the commenter wishes to see a broadband monopoly instead of a duopoly, in which...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-08
- Healthcare Services Company Fosters Rapid Adoption for New Collaboration Environment
- To promote collaboration among its many dispersed business units, McKesson, the nation's largest healthcare services company, deployed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. McKesson realized, however, that its new technology would help the organization function as a cohesive entity only if users successfully adopted and took full advantage of the product's...
- Case studies 2008-10-01
- 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 â€" financial services and health care â€" 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. Â 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
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