McKesson Collaborates with Vanderbilt Health Rx Solutions to Expand Integrated Pharmacy Services

McKesson Corporation, a worldwide healthcare organization, reports another cooperation with Vanderbilt Health Rx Solutions (VHRxS), a public chief in specialty pharmacy technique and execution, to offer VHRxS's full suite of specialty pharmacy consulting services to McKesson's health system clients. This new, specialized offering from VHRxS will supplement the experience of McKesson, which has offered industry-driving pharmacy services for over 40 years, by bringing the skill of VHRxS, which was established by Vanderbilt University Medical Center to propel the mission of health systems specialty drug stores cross country.

The new help will offer altered specialty pharmacy services and development procedures to emergency clinics and health systems in each period of their development. VHRxS's portfolio of strong specialty pharmacy consulting services will help health systems improve patient and supplier fulfillment while making new income transfers by fully coordinating pharmacy services into specialty centers.

Scott Miller, president of McKesson Health Systems, shares, “Our teams work closely with customers to understand their challenges and this was a clear need for health systems addressing their specialty pharmacy capabilities. Along with our existing portfolio of services and solutions, this is one more way customers can achieve more for their hospitals and patients by creating new or strengthening existing revenue streams.”

McKesson's pharmacy chiefs and the VHRxS group of experienced, involved counsels comprehend the requirements and difficulties of health system specialty drug stores. The groups have profound experience working with health systems altogether phases of development, from creating and carrying out starting specialty pharmacy development methodologies to improving existing activities to arrive at the following level.

Jim Hayman, president of VHRxS and Chief Pharmacy Officer at Vanderbilt Health, states, “By collaborating with McKesson, we can better extend our expertise as a leading health system-based specialty pharmacy provider to help our peers. We know from experience that investing in your specialty pharmacy operations boosts patient and provider satisfaction, which reaps seen and unseen benefits many times over.”

About McKesson Corporation
McKesson Corporation is a global leader in healthcare supply chain management solutions, retail pharmacy, community oncology and specialty care, and healthcare information solutions. McKesson partners with pharmaceutical manufacturers, providers, pharmacies, governments and other organizations in healthcare to help provide the right medicines, medical products and healthcare services to the right patients at the right time, safely and cost-effectively. United by our ICARE shared principles, our employees work every day to innovate and deliver opportunities that make our customers and partners more successful all for the better health of patients.

About Vanderbilt Health Rx Solutions
Vanderbilt Health Rx Solutions (VHRxS) is a national specialty pharmacy strategy and management company founded and operated by Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Middle Tennessee’s largest private employer and the largest academic medical center in the Mid-South with over 2.5 million patient encounters annually. VHRxS uniquely and effectively addresses the specialty pharmacy needs of companies, hospitals and health systems through building patient-centered, clinically integrated specialty pharmacy programs in collaboration with health system clients and leading employers. Founded on VUMC’s historic global leadership in clinical pharmacology, best-in-class specialty pharmacy operations and employee health plan performance, VHRxS draws on years of hands-on experience creating and executing specialty pharmacy strategies to help clients build successful programs of their own.