Horizon Lab™ - Optimizing Clinical Performance to Increase Patient and Lab Safety

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Horizon LabOptimizing Clinical Performance to
Increase Patient and Lab Safety
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Why Lab Software?

• To maintain the balance of patient safety against
  the financial health of the hospital, todays
  laboratory information systems
• must deliver a new level of competency,
  efficiency and strategic value.

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What is Lab Software?

• A real-time tool that is easily configured
  on-the-fly to determine how a specimen moves
  into and through the laboratory, helping you to
• Monitor test procedures
• Match tests with correct patients
• Analyze payer-specific charges and processing
  criteria
• Produce accurate charges automatically.

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Who Uses Lab Software?

• Developed by Lab Professionals for Lab
  Professionals
• Clinical Laboratory Scientists optimize
  workflow
• Phlebotomists/Nurses organize and track
  specimens accurately
• Laboratory Directors/Supervisors maximize
  organizational effectiveness
• Pathologists access to lab data to assist in
  diagnosis

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Lab Software Assists in Increasing Patient Safety

• Lab software helps eliminate errors in
  mislabeling specimens and/or misidentifying
  patients, preventing negative patient outcomes.
• Inpatient and outpatient records are verified
  automatically and simultaneously to double check
  the care continuum regardless of location or
  patient type.

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Lab Software Assists in Increasing Patient Safety

• Lab software helps improve the efficiency of
  emergency departments because they receive
  critical information needed to make vital
  decisions for patients quickly.

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Benefits of Horizon Lab

• Smart Quality Management
• Helps ensure accurate laboratory data and
  increases personnel efficiencies
• Expert rules tied to work process, supporting
  quality control measures
• User-defined criteria allows access to multiple
  data points

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Benefits of Horizon Lab

• Effective Across All Lab Settings
• With truly open lab information system
  architecture, Horizon Lab is fully adaptable to
  any healthcare setting, from single to multiple
  facilities.

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Optimizing Clinical Performance to Increase
Patient and Lab Safety

• Learn more about the benefits of
• McKesson lab information systems. 
• Visit our website today!

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About McKesson

• McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 14th on
  the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and
  information technology company dedicated to
  making the business of healthcare run better. We
  partner with payers, hospitals, physician
  offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and
  others across the spectrum of care to build
  healthier organizations that deliver better care
  to patients in every setting. McKesson helps its
  customers improve their financial, operational,
  and clinical performance with solutions that
  include pharmaceutical and medical-surgical
  supply management, healthcare information
  technology, and business and clinical services.
  For more information, visit http//www.mckesson.co
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• For more information about McKesson lab
  information systems, visit our website.