McKesson snags deal with Medicare

McKesson is implementing the system in 16 Medicare provider offices so home-care clinicians can spend more time with patients.

Clinicians will be able to document records, create schedules and file paperwork through.

The program can receive the documented information through laptops, telephones, personal digital assistants or the Internet.

“Everything a nurse would do they can do from a laptop,” said Scott Turner, manager of implementation services at McKesson Provider Technologies. “They can document how a patient feels, their blood pressure, their temperature, their pulse – they will capture the information in the patient’s home.”

Turner said the system is a time-saving tool that not only cuts a clinician’s documentation time in half, it allows a clinician to spend more time physically caring for a patient.

The program also is programmed to document financial records and billing.