SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK), a leading global healthcare services
and information technology company, today announced that it is exploring
strategic alternatives for its Enterprise Information Solutions (EIS)
business, a division of McKesson that provides core hospital information
systems.
EIS serves hospitals and health systems with software solutions, managed
services, and infrastructure and hosting services to enable them to
succeed through healthcare reform and beyond. The portfolio includes
core solutions such as: Paragon® hospital information system;
STARTM and HealthQuestTM solutions for revenue
cycle management, financial and supply chain management; OneContentTM
document and content management; and coding and other professional
services to help maximize the total value of information technology.
“We appreciate the critical importance of the Electronic Medical Record
(EMR) and other core information systems to the success of our provider
customers,” said Pat Blake, executive vice president and group
president, McKesson Technology Solutions. “As we embark on building a
new, EMR-agnostic technology company with Change Healthcare, we believe
that it is in the best interest of our customers to identify a strategic
alternative that will allow for more focus on core provider information
systems. We are committed to supporting our customers as we evaluate
these options, ensuring a smooth transition through this process.”
“Exploring a new strategic path forward for Paragon, OneContent and our
ERP-related businesses provides the best opportunity to accelerate our
ability to meet our customers’ evolving needs,” said Nimesh Shah,
president, EIS. “While we evaluate the best options, the overall
priorities for EIS remain unchanged, and we will continue the many
efforts we have underway to serve the long-term interests of our
customers.”
There is no assurance that this evaluation will result in any
transaction being announced or consummated. McKesson will not disclose
further developments during this process until its Board of Directors
has approved a specific action or McKesson has otherwise determined that
further disclosure is appropriate. EIS is reported as part of our
McKesson Technology Solutions segment.
In a separate announcement today, McKesson announced the formation of a
new healthcare information technology company with Change Healthcare
Holdings, Inc. that will include the majority of the McKesson Technology
Solutions businesses.
About McKesson Corporation
McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 5th on the FORTUNE 500, is a
healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to
making the business of healthcare run better. McKesson partners 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 www.mckesson.com.
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meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
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trends, strategy, plans or intentions may also include forward-looking
statements. It is not possible to predict or identify all such risks and
uncertainties; however, the most significant of these risks and
uncertainties are described in the company’s Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and
Form 8-K reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and
include, but are not limited to: changes in the U.S. healthcare industry
and regulatory environment; managing foreign expansion, including the
related operating, economic, political and regulatory risks; changes in
the Canadian healthcare industry and regulatory environment; exposure to
European economic conditions, including recent austerity measures taken
by certain European governments; changes in the European regulatory
environment with respect to privacy and data protection regulations;
fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; the company’s ability
to successfully identify, consummate, finance and integrate
acquisitions; the company’s ability to manage and complete divestitures;
material adverse resolution of pending legal proceedings; competition
and industry consolidation; substantial defaults in payment or a
material reduction in purchases by, or the loss of, a large customer or
group purchasing organization; the loss of government contracts as a
result of compliance or funding challenges; public health issues in the
U.S. or abroad; cyberattack, natural disaster, or malfunction of
sophisticated internal computer systems to perform as designed; the
adequacy of insurance to cover property loss or liability claims; the
company’s failure to attract and retain customers for its software
products and solutions due to integration and implementation challenges,
or due to an inability to keep pace with technological advances; the
company’s proprietary products and services may not be adequately
protected, and its products and solutions may be found to infringe on
the rights of others; system errors or failure of our technology
products or services to conform to specifications; disaster or other
event causing interruption of customer access to data residing in our
service centers; the delay or extension of our sales or implementation
cycles for external software products; changes in circumstances that
could impair our goodwill or intangible assets; new or revised tax
legislation or challenges to our tax positions; general economic
conditions, including changes in the financial markets that may affect
the availability and cost of credit to the company, its customers or
suppliers; changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the
United States of America; withdrawal from participation in multiemployer
pension plans or if such plans are reported to have underfunded
liabilities; inability to realize the expected benefits from the
company’s restructuring and business process initiatives; difficulties
with outsourcing and similar third party relationships; risks associated
with the company’s retail expansion; and the company’s inability to keep
existing retail store locations or open new retail locations in
desirable places. The reader should not place undue reliance on
forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are
first made. Except to the extent required by law, the company undertakes
no obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to these
forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the
date hereof, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
