Financial Analysis of McKesson Corporation “McKesson is dedicated to delivering the vital medicines, medical supplies and information technologies that enable the health care industry to provide patients better, safer care.” (http://www.mckesson.com/en_us/McKesson.com/About%2BUs/About%2BUs.html) McKesson Corporation operates on two segments. It’s a distribution solutions center that delivers drugs, medical supplies and equipment, and beauty products. It also operates as a technology solutions
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Winning the EHR Battle with Enterprise Content Management How Sentara Healthcare created a comprehensive EHR solution Featuring the results oF the Document management Survey June 2010 2 This article is based on a webinar presented by Hyland Software in May 2011. To view the on demand version of the webinar, please visit www.healthcareitnews.com Sentara’s EHR solution bridges the gap between paper and electronic documents A ssembling a full-scale, workable electronic health
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Patton-Fuller Community Hospital looks to upgrade their Information Technology (IT) capability beginning with their networks. The characteristics, components, and topology are evaluated to properly identify the needs for the new network design. The plan includes converting to a Wireless Local Area Network otherwise known as (WLAN), installing a Voice over Internet Protocol otherwise known as (VoIP), and design a Wide Area Network (WAN). The plan also includes the hospital maintaining all Macintosh®
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Abstract An electronic bar code medication administration was a system developed and successfully implemented in a 118-bed Veterans Administration hospital in February 2000. Known as Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA), this software proved useful in generating fast and accurate medication administration as well as online patient medication records preservation. The application created by the Eastern Kansas Health Care System in association with Colmery-O’Neil VA Medical Center has been
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Final Project Report for Media Tracking System Version 2.0 approved [pic] Table of Contents Table of Contents i Revision History iii Group Members iii 1. Final Project Summary i 1.1. Content Summary i 1.2. Lessons Learned ii 1.3. Learning Outcomes Summary ii 1.3.1 Communications iii 1.3.2 Critical Thinking v 1.3.3 Network Design v 1.3.4 Management Information Systems v 1.3.5 Systems Administration and Scripting vi 1.3.6 Security
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medications. Two notable events that triggered recent interest in this topic are the heparin overdoses that occurred in California, associated with actor Dennis Quaid’s newborn twins, and those affecting neonates in an Indiana hospital. The Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a proactive approach to error prevention. Implementation of an FMEA system would serve as a crucial method that will help to recognize potential failures of a product or process before adverse events occur. FMEA can
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Abstract One might think that a hospitals soul operations is to provide doctors and nurses to assist patients with their sickness and diseases. However, there is a ton of operations and systems that go on in the background. At Patton-Fuller Community Hospital, they split up their business information systems in four ways. Patton-Fuller Community Hospital use this system to improve communication and collaboration between senior management, employees, doctors, nurses and patients. In addition, the
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how important the use of a Real time location system (RTLS) can be to hospitals. Knowing the location, status and movement of equipment and people in hospitals provides valuable information used to reduce equipment expenses and increase staff productivity. RTLS enables hospital managers the ability to increase oversight of millions of dollars’ worth of hospital-owned equipment and provides financial returns on increasing hospital-owned equipment utilization, reducing the need for excessive equipment
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Literature Review 4 Problem Analysis 6 Possible Solutions 10 Solutions and Implementations 12 Justification 13 References 14 Introduction Attention to medical errors escalated over five years ago with the release of a study from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), To Err is Human, which found that between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans die each year in U.S. hospitals due to preventable medical errors. Hospital errors rank between the
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there needs to be a constant analysis of the decisions that arise daily. Not only do manager’s make personnel decision, they often times are confronted with the decisions of resources and data entry. Because managers must answer to the shareholders, they must be the bearer of the good and the bad news. When making and analysis, managers should, 1) identify the source of the problem, 2) information analyzed, 3) recommended courses of action, and 4) review the analysis conducted. This paper takes a
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