Greetings,

At InSight, it’s easy to recognize the benefits of membership. From the InSight Annual Conference, to year-round educational opportunities like the CIO Forum to the launch of the new Website, equipped with online collaboration tools like Discussion Forums, a member does not have to search long to find the education and resources needed to further their knowledge. Through these programs, we continue to strengthen both the InSight community and the healthcare industry.

In order to keep the InSight community collaborative, the education relevant and the member benefits strong, InSight needs solid leadership.

That’s why volunteerism is critical to this organization.

As a volunteer, you maximize your benefits of membership. InSight’s role as the largest McKesson user group allows you to interact with leaders in the healthcare industry and enables you to strengthen your role as a leader at your own facility and/or organization.

To read the President’s Message in its entirety, click here.

Experience the Vision, Voice and Value of InSight. Mark your calendars for the InSight 2008 Annual Conference, September 24-27, at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas.

This year’s conference will be better than ever before, so plan to attend today! Visit www.insight-net.org regularly to obtain the latest conference information.

Stay tuned for information on early-bird registration coming soon.

While members adapt to the new functions at www.insight-net.org, InSight reminds you there are available documents to aid in learning and working through these new tools. To ease the transition into our new platform and its comprehensive communication tools, please browse through the files below. These will show you how to subscribe to the Discussion Forums, CSE (Enhancement) Forums and SIGs that you are most interested in joining.

• Steps to Subscribe to a Forum
• Steps to Subscribe to a CSE Forum
• Steps to Update Your SIG Preferences

If you still have questions after reading through these documents, please contact us at website@insight-net.org.

There are still open positions available to members for the 2009 InSight Board and Committee. In June 2008, the InSight membership will vote on all nominated members. The following positions are open for nomination:

• President Elect
• Vice President - Finance
• Director - Education
• Director - Enhancements
• Director - Membership
• Nominating Committee

For more information and how to nominate or apply, visit the 2009 Board and Committee Positions page.

SIG Monthly Calls are now taking place. These calls provide great settings for discussion and networking with SIG leaders and other InSight volunteers around specific product lines. All InSight members are encouraged to attend any SIG calls they may have an interest in joining.

If you are interested in attending these monthly calls, please take a look at the schedule for call times and information. Log in to the InSight Website then click here to see the schedule. If you have any questions regarding SIGs, please contact us at insight@insight-net.org.

Attendees at HIMSS08 learned how McKesson is delivering the Power to Perform with its new Horizon Advantage™ offerings. At the conference, McKesson unveiled its Patient Care Advantage™ and Community Care Advantage™ offerings, and showcased the RelayHealth Results Distribution Service and Horizon Managed Services™ solutions. The Horizon Advantage family of solutions helps McKesson customers solve the biggest issues facing healthcare by bringing the Patient, Payor, Pharmacy, Employer and Clinicians onto the same Care Team. McKesson unites the business of healthcare by improving patient care quality, operational excellence and financial performance.

• Patient Care Advantage™ enables hospitals to deliver safer, more efficient care by having the right skill mix available at the right time, optimizing patient flow, preventing errors across the entire medication use process and giving clinicians the tools to manage the complexity of their workflow while achieving measurably better patient outcomes. The solution incorporates the new Horizon Clinicals® Care Team release with more than 8,000 new features, support for advanced clinical workflow and essential integration for patient safety. Read the press release.
• Community Care Advantage™ aims at improving outcomes and assisting healthcare organizations in becoming more effective care managers for their community populations while mitigating financial risk. This new suite of products and services helps providers meet the medical needs of indigent, chronically ill and newly discharged patients in a timely, high-quality manner. Read the press release.
• Horizon Managed Services™ provides a continuum of innovative services designed to help hospitals realize and accelerate the value from their healthcare IT investments. These industry-leading capabilities include expertise for system design through implementation, ongoing system support, connectivity and remote hosting. Read the press release.
• Results Distribution Service (RDS) from McKesson's RelayHealth business provides electronic distribution of clinical results and other patient care documentation in real time from hospitals to participating physician practices. Read the press release.
  

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