VHA to deploy McKesson financial decision support software

McKesson has signed a three-year agreement with VHA to provide the alliance with its McKesson Performance Analytics software as an enterprise business intelligence solution.

The contract also offers preferential pricing for VHA members, including discounts for more than 1,400 not-for-profit hospitals and 23,000 non-acute care organizations, McKesson said.

The Performance Analytics software provides hospitals and health systems with a financial decision support system that integrates data from the clinical care process to measure organizational performance. Using customized, web-based dashboards, users will have access to information from across the enterprise to manage their business, according to McKesson.

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