Healthcare Magazine September 2020 | Page 93

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YEAR FOUNDED

Founder BRIAN S . TYLER

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McKesson Corp .

$ 18.7bn

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Taking a holistic approach to healthcare , McKesson prides itself on its ability to improve services and products end-to-end , leaving no stone unturned in its quest to deliver better outcomes for patients . A highly influential and successful legacy brand founded in the early 19th century , it is the seventh-largest company currently operating in the US today . Despite its roots in the past , McKesson ’ s status as an innovator has been established historically through its early adoption of bar-code scanning , pharmacy-based robotic automation and use of RFID tags to enhance logistics and distribution . In the last 10 years , it has made several notable acquisitions , including US Oncology and Celesio .
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