Archive for April, 2009
McKesson’s Top-Ranked Paragon HIS Offers Community Hospitals Integration, Affordability, Low Cost of Ownership, and Industry-Standard Microsoft Technology
Reading healthcare IT magazines might make you think that every hospital needs a $20 million information system that takes five or more years to install and a vast army of highly trained support staff to keep it up and running. What they don’t say is that those systems are not always appropriate for community hospitals that need a fully functional yet affordable system to help them improve patient care, manage costs and the revenue cycle, and allow improving and measuring quality. Systems like that make perfect sense in uncertain economic times, especially when the federal government may soon provide help in financing healthcare technology such as Paragon. The Paragon hospital information system, No. 1 ranked in KLAS, is sold by healthcare giant McKesson Corporation, which backs Paragon with financial stability, deep healthcare expertise, and a wide range of healthcare solutions and technologies. We spoke to Jim Pesce, senior vice president and general manager for Paragon.
