Why Automate?
McKesson Automated Prescription Systems (APS) is the leading provider of automation solutions that help the pharmacy increase efficiency and enhance patient safety. APS solutions provide the efficiencies that your pharmacy needs to realize timesavings – valuable time that can be spent counseling patients, checking for harmful drug interactions and growing pharmacy business.
APS is Leading the Way...
in Pharmacy Efficiency
APS will help your business grow by maximizing throughput and improving customer and employee satisfaction. By streamlining processes and automating time-consuming functions, prescriptions are filled faster, patient wait times are decreased and pharmacists are freed to perform other value-added tasks.
in Patient Safety
As the leading provider of bar coded technology to over 12,000 pharmacy customers, APS has seen first-hand how bar coding can increase patient safety and help save lives. APS solutions utilize bar code technology throughout the prescription filling process. In addition to bar code verification, APS’ technology counts and stores medications and provides drug image verification.
in Innovation
APS is committed to delivering industry leading, innovative products and services. From the 1970 introduction of the Baker Cells®, APS has consistently led the market with innovative, state-of-the-art automation solutions - most recently, the revolutionary new robot, AccuScript™. The needs of our customers are and continue to be, the driving force behind new product development and existing line enhancements.
McKesson touches each step of the pharmacy industry, providing customers with technologies that improve efficiency and enhance patient safety. APS solutions can be combined with existing pharmacy systems or seamlessly integrated with additional McKesson technologies such as PharmaServ® host management system, Refill TeleManager™ IVR system, Central Fill technologies or Supply Management programs.
While the AccuMed™ counting and dispensing system and AccuCount™ are the newest technologies, APS continues to offer a wide variety of solutions that can be scaled to the needs of any pharmacy prescription volume or physical size. Those technologies include the AccuCount™ pharmacy scale, Pharmacy 2000® workflow software, Productivity Station® and of course, the well-known Baker Cells® and Baker Cassettes®. APS also provides solutions for efficient and private customer pick-up, such as the Automated Will Call rotary cabinet and the AccuSign™ electronic signature capture device.
McKesson Corporation, a Fortune 35 corporation, is the world's largest supply management and healthcare information technology company. McKesson Corporation provides supply management and information technologies across the entire continuum of healthcare, including market-leading businesses in pharmaceutical and medical-surgical distribution, automation, information technology and outsourcing services for healthcare providers and payors.
Our primary focus is on delivering value-added logistical services, materials management, third-party reimbursement support, scheduling, clinical data capture/analysis, billing/cost accountability, and decision support. This breadth of capabilities, coupled with the largest customer base in the healthcare industry, uniquely positions us to help reduce costs and improve quality for our customers. Currently, McKesson Corporation sells the broadest number of products and services to approximately
5,000 hospitals
25,000 retail pharmacies
200,000 physicians
10,000 long-term care sites
750 home-care agencies
450 pharmaceutical manufacturers
2,000 medical surgical manufacturers
600 healthcare payors
This reach, spanning the entire information technology and supply management structure across the full continuum of care, has enabled McKesson Corporation to establish market-leading positions in pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management, healthcare information systems for providers, information services for payors, and healthcare information outsourcing.
Deliver the future of healthcare.
Ready to make a difference in people's lives? Want to be part of a technology revolution? Eager to join a winning team? Anxious to get into a growth industry?
McKesson Corporation is more than a Fortune 40 corporation and the world's largest healthcare services company. McKesson Corporation is leveraging its substantial financial strength to revolutionize the industry. From bar-code reading robots for hospital pharmacies to voice technology that automates order processing, McKesson Corporation employs the very latest innovations. Unrivaled experience further helps us increase reliability and efficiency throughout the distribution pipeline - from manufacturers to patients. The result? Our customers can provide better, more cost-effective care. We call it patient-centered healthcare. You'll call it a great career move.
Our ideas, tools and solutions set us apart from our peers and position us at the technological edge of our industry. If you think it's time to establish yourself within a company that will guide our industry and your career well into the next century, partner with us.
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Medis
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MedManagement
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Pharmaceutical Group
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Pharmaceutical Partners Group
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Prospective Health
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Zee Medical
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An industry leader looking after its own. We provide a comprehensive, competitive program of benefits to care for you and your family today, and build financial security for the future.
McKesson provides plans for short- and long-term disability, life and accident insurance as well as:
Extensive medical, dental and vision and prescription drug benefits
Employee Assistance Program, providing employees with 24-hour, 365-day support to help you balance work and home life, nurture your relationships, and manage alcohol or drug problems
Resources for child care, legal counsel, and financial planning
Adoption Assistance, reimbursing employees for up to $2,000 in expenses
Flexible spending accounts
McKesson employees are invited to become members of the McKesson Employees Federal Credit Union, which offers many options for savings and investments, checking accounts, individual retirement accounts, consumer loans, home loans and credit cards.
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