The FINANCIAL -- Monarch Beach, CA, September 27, 2011 – McKesson Corporation, America’s
largest healthcare services provider, announced that it has climbed to
the top 250 companies in this year’s InformationWeek 500, an annual
listing of the nation’s most innovative users of business technology.
The 2011 list was revealed this month at the awards ceremony at the InformationWeek 500 Conference.
"McKesson is honored to be recognized by InformationWeek, as we are focused on swiftly executing mission-critical IT initiatives that enable us to serve our customers with speed and agility," said Randy Spratt, McKesson’s CTO and CIO. "Our five-year data center transformation project, one of our top IT initiatives, is on track to meet or exceed nearly $100 million in projected savings and will give us a powerful, virtualized and scalable IT infrastructure that will position us well in a constantly shifting technology environment. We are laying a strong technology foundation that will support mobile web-based applications at large scale, and make it easier to address whatever the future brings."
"We are positioning ourselves to deliver fully on next-generation healthcare IT requirements. Cost, quality, agility, reliability, and security are all being improved as we move assets onto our shared infrastructure, says Lisa McVey, CIO, McKesson Provider Technologies.
In addition to realizing multi-million dollar costs savings, the virtualized environment will accelerate service levels improvements through streamlined tools and processes, and deliver a greener IT environment by reducing power consumption and CO2 emissions. It will result in enhanced operational efficiency and greater security, compliance, and risk mitigation through centralized data management.
McKesson’s ultimate goal of consolidating the data environment is to offer standardized infrastructure services to its business units and to their customers by creating a private cloud that complies with the stringent privacy and regulatory requirements of the healthcare industry, but with cost models that rival large-scale public cloud providers. This will free up millions of dollars to help fund future cloud initiatives that will help McKesson deliver increasing capability and value to its internal and external customers.
"For 23 years, the InformationWeek 500 has chronicled and honored the most innovative users of business technology," said InformationWeek Editor In Chief Rob Preston. "In this day and age, however, being innovative isn’t enough. Companies and their IT organizations need to innovate faster than ever before to stay a step or two ahead of their customers, partners, and competitors. This year’s ranking placed special emphasis on those high-octane business technology innovators."
InformationWeek identifies and honors the nation's most innovative users of information technology with its annual 500 listing and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments and administrative practices of America’s best-known companies. Top winners have included: The Vanguard Group, CME Group, Conway, National Semiconductor, Kimberly-Clark, Hilton Hotels and Unum. The InformationWeek 500 rankings are unique among corporate rankings as it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders.
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