Patient flow

HIStech Report www. HIStechReport. com January 15, 2008 1 January 15, 2008 Horizon Enterprise Visibility by McKesson Highlights Patient Flow Bottlenecks, Addressing Capacity Problems Without Physical Expansion I admit that I wasn’t familiar with Awarix... More

HIStech Report www.
HIStechReport.
com January 15, 2008 1
January 15, 2008
Horizon Enterprise Visibility by
McKesson Highlights Patient Flow
Bottlenecks, Addressing Capacity
Problems Without Physical Expansion
I
admit that I wasn’t familiar with Awarix until industry
expert Jon Phillips told me that McKesson’s acquisition
of the company was potentially the most impactful of
all the high-profile transactions of 2007.
I see why: every
hospital has throughput, handoff, and caregiver
communications problems that the company’s technology
can help solve.
The ROI is apparently fast, even without
considering what hospitals might otherwise spend to
expand physical facilities to address patient backlog
problems.
We spoke to Paul Gartman of McKesson, who
has product responsibilities for what is now called Horizon
Enterprise Visibility.

Awarix was not widely known when McKesson
acquired the company in July.
Tell me about its
products.

The Awarix solution, which has been renamed Horizon
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