Mary Beth Navarra, RN, MBA, chief patient safety officer for McKesson Provider Technologies announced, McKesson will team up with Clorox to offer jointly-developed disinfection protocols in conjunction with McKesson's Patient Care Advantage solution. The solution, which drives a "one patient, one care team, one plan" approach to care delivery, is designed to enable hospitals to provide safer, more efficient care.

More than two million clinicians rely on McKesson solutions and each year more than 100 million medications are scanned at the bedside using McKesson solutions. The Clorox Company manufactures a complete line of hospital-grade surface-disinfecting products and alcohol-based hand sanitisers.

McKesson is the only single-source provider of integrated software, automation, packaging, distribution and consulting solutions that help organisations improve efficiency and prevent medication errors at each stage where they can occur.

McKesson broader patient safety issues by helping to improve communication among care givers, reduce variability in care and develop a metric-driven culture focused on performance improvement. Infection control is a key element of patient safety. By the collaboration of McKesson and Clorox, will help the customers lower the risk of inadvertently transporting harmful micro-organisms among patient rooms.