McKesson Corporation
Somerset Hospital to Automate Medication Dispensing with McKesson
Published in Physician Law Weekly, March 10th, 2010
Somerset Hospital in Pennsylvania has joined with McKesson to automate its pharmacy using the new PROmanager-Rx™ system. The system will enable the 150-bed hospital to fully automate 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® community hospital information system, expects PROmanager-Rx to automate dispensing for approximately 80 percent of its daily scheduled patient doses.
"Our decision to implement PROmanager-Rx is the latest example of how we are using advanced technology to continue to drive innovative...
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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2010-03-10)
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