A report from our favorite rumor mill, HIStalk, has McKesson selling off its portfolio of physician practice-centric health IT to ambulatory electronic health records vendor e-MDs. “McKesson will apparently exit the physician practice business by selling Medisoft, Lytec, Practice Partner and Practice Choice to e-MDs,” according to a reader comment posted on HIStalk Tuesday evening.
This could set the stage for McKesson, a giant in the world of medical supplies and pharmaceutical distribution, to exit the health IT market completely, with the possibly exception of RelayHealth, the reader speculated.
The health IT division, known as McKesson Technology Solutions or sometimes McKesson Provider Technologies, is just a tiny part of overall McKesson operations. It accounted for just 2 percent of McKesson’s overall $179 billion in revenues for fiscal year 2015, down from 3 percent in 2013, according to the most recent annual report. For the full article click here
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