These are times when the healthcare system is undergoing intense scrutiny. It is also a time when new clinical, financial and technological innovations are creating unprecedented opportunities to improve the quality and cost of care delivery.

Please join McKesson Health Solutions in a dialogue exploring today’s hottest issues and sharing our collective insights on how to address them to advance the state of the healthcare delivery system.

Here, Bob Franceschini, vice president of enterprise architecture and technology for McKesson Health Solutions, discusses the applicability and benefits of cloud computing in healthcare with interviewer Mabel Jong.

One of the most promising value-based reimbursement models is bundling payments for episodes of care. At World Health Care Congress in April 2012, Douglas Moeller MD, medical director for claims performance at McKesson Health Solutions, breaks down the key components for reporter Mabel Jong, along with providing a status report on industry progress to date.

Helping patients stay out of the hospital once they’ve been discharged has been a longtime priority for many hospitals, health networks, and health plans. Now it has become a financial imperative too, thanks to provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. For the past six years, McKesson has researched and developed readmission reduction strategies as an integral part of care management strategy. Our approach focuses on the coordination of handoffs and aligns with the criteria endorsed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Project RED (Re-Engineered Discharge).

Read the white paper to learn more about developing a readmission reduction strategy.

Dr. Emad Rizk, president of McKesson Health Solutions, shares his outlook on recent changes in the healthcare industry at the 2012 World Health Care Congress in Washington, D.C. He reflects on the heightened level of experimentation with payment and care delivery reforms, and the ways in which payers and providers are working together in new and very powerful ways, sharing data, processes and ultimately the risk of managing patient populations.