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麦克森公司（McKesson）

    1833年由约翰•麦克森和查里斯•奥科特在纽约联手创办的麦克森公司早在美国医疗产业发展的早期就已在业内占据一席之地。最初，公司的业务是帮助来自宾夕法尼亚州谢克社区的满载草药、根茎和香料的药物运输船只储存货物。

    毫无疑问，麦克森公司本身与其医疗服务业一样都取得了巨大成功。公司现在是北美第一大医药分销商，营销15万种医疗手术用品，包括绷带和手术台。而且，公司声称其提供影响逾1.6亿名患者的医疗解决方案。

    公司已不再满足于昔日的谢克香料渠道商身份，大胆涉足销售一种叫做“健康解决方案”的抽象产品，引导客户体验各种层次的服务，还出售“供应商技术”，意在帮助客户解决医疗记录中的数字化问题。全美大约有一半以上的“医疗系统”在使用麦克森的这种技术，公司因此获利颇丰——每年营收逾1230亿美元。

    另外，麦克森正在致力于打造一支医疗机器人部队。该公司称，在北美地区投入使用的300多个自动配药机器人Robot-Rx每年以零失误的表现成功配药3.5亿剂。女士们、先生们，这就是医药产业的未来啊。

McKesson

    McKesson was around during the old days of the American medical industry. In 1833, John McKesson and Charles Olcott formed the company in New York, starting out stocking medical ships coming to port with chests full of herbs, roots and spices from Pennsylvania Shaker communities.

    Medical services, of course, have come a long way, and so has the company, which is now the largest pharmaceutical distributor on the continent. McKesson(MCK, Fortune 500) peddles more than 150,000 medical-surgical products, including bandages and exam tables, and, it claims, offers healthcare solutions that touch "more than 160 million covered lives."

    No more a conduit for Shaker spices, the industry today involves selling a much murkier product called "health solutions," which guides clients through the coverage levels they should offer, among other things, and "provider technologies," which aim to help clients deal with the digitization of medical records. Over half of all "health systems" in the United States use McKesson's technologies in this category. It's lucrative — McKesson nets more than $123 billion in annual revenue.

    Also, McKesson is building a medical robot army. Every year, according to the company, "More than 300 Robot-Rx pharmacy robots deployed in North America dispense 350 million medication doses error-free." The future of medicine, ladies and gentlemen.