The McKesson Medication Safety Advantage is a comprehensive solution that helps ensure patient safety and medication safety at each stage of medication management – prescribing, transcribing, administering, dispensing and monitoring.

Real change requires broad deployment of high-impact technologies that can deliver proven benefits now. In fact, the IOM’s latest report cites Information technology, such as e-prescribing and provider order entry solutions, as a top priority for improving patient safety.

The McKesson Medication Safety AdvantageSM is a comprehensive solution that helps ensure safety at each stage of medication management — prescribing, transcribing, administering, dispensing and monitoring. As the only single-source provider that integrates software, automation, packaging, distribution and consulting solutions, we help healthcare organizations create a complete medication safety strategy.

In fact, many McKesson customers have created a strong culture of safety with process redesign and technology that enables better collaboration and communication among caregivers. These organizations have invested in patient safety technology – from bar code medication dispensing and administration systems to electronic prescribing, documentation and alerting solutions – and have enviable results.

Breadth and Depth
As you launch or broaden your patient safety strategy, consider this: McKesson is the nation's leading healthcare services company and provides the greatest depth and breadth of pharmaceuticals and technologies that make healthcare safer while reducing costs. We've been at the forefront of major breakthroughs in medication management and pioneered:

Bar-code scanning at the point of care
Robotic drug dispensing
Computer-generated medication administration record
First wearable bar-code scanning device for pharmaceutical distribution
As part of our comprehensive offering, we develop and install:

Pharmacy robotics, workflow solutions, bar code medication administration, clinical alerting and more. Customers use our proven systems to:

Dispense more than 300 million error free medication doses annually
Safely scan more than 73 million medications at the bedside every year
Issue more than 650,000 warnings weekly
Prevent more than 200,000 medication errors weekly

Electronic systems that eliminate paper prescriptions and paper medical records. Physicians and other clinicians use our systems to:

Write more than 80,000 e-prescriptions a month
Securely access patient information more than 2.5 million times a month
Make safer, more collaborative care decisions