S U P P LY C H A I N ARGUABLY THE WORLD’S best healthcare IT supplier, McKesson stands as a successful Fortune 500 company leading the way in providing customized healthcare solutions to its international, health-focused clientele for over 20 years. McKesson Technology Solutions partners with its clients by focusing on their respective needs, delivering unique health solutions for integrated care management that enables payors, providers and patients to transform the business and process of care. Focusing primarily on its acute care in hospitals and warehouse management solutions, McKesson has become the one to watch throughout healthcare, as competitors, providers and startups alike look to this industry leader to model their own up-and-coming supply chain solutions. In terms of how McKesson is able to diagnose and analyze company data to generate solutions, vice president Tabel points to user experience as a point of concentration: “The world has changed a lot in the last decade or so,” says vice president Todd Tabel, Supply Chain Solutions, “If you think about it that way, you realize that even payment methods have 24
July 2014
McKesson has an artificial intelligence engine to help find the right healthcare supplies
changed significantly (what will and won’t be reimbursed), making the right decision upfront even more critical than ever before. We’ve got a solution in that area that is very similar to a Google-like search engine. It allows you to use an artificial intelligence engine to help you find the searches of the right supplies in your organization. We embrace a lot of consumer-driven inspiration, like Amazon, in order to provide for a richer consumer-like environment.”