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McKesson Signs Agreement with Iron Mountain
~Relationship to help hospitals and imaging centers protect and store diagnostic images~

CHICAGO, Dec. 3, 2008 – During RSNA 2008, McKesson announced that it has signed an agreement with Iron Mountain to provide its hospital and imaging center customers a new service for protecting and storing their diagnostic images. The agreement is designed to tightly integrate McKesson’s Horizon Medical Imaging™ picture archiving and communication system (PACS) with Iron Mountain’s Digital Record Center™ for Medical Images.

Healthcare providers face a twofold problem - safely archiving patient images while protecting them from disaster and balancing the need to provide the entire care team with ready access to critical patient data. This complexity has led many facilities to implement separate solutions for long-term archiving and disaster recovery, adding cost and redundancy to an already expensive problem.  Facilities of all sizes and complexities are looking for an automated solution that mitigates their risk and reduces their operational budget.

“Our customers must continually manage ever-greater amounts of image data that require secure off-site storage and increase operational costs,” said Rod O’Reilly, president of McKesson's Medical Imaging Group. “With this relationship, we can assist our customers by reducing their long-term storage costs while also supporting customers in their efforts to comply with regulations for disaster recovery.”  

“Through this agreement, hospitals and imaging centers receive one solution capable of both secure back-up and recoverability in the event of disaster and quick access to their patient records,” said Ken Rubin, senior vice president of strategic alliances for Iron Mountain, the global leader in information protection and storage services. “By using a managed service, these institutions can better protect and preserve vital patient data and redeploy resources previously spent on in-house storage to patient care.”

The Horizon Medical Imaging PACS is the flagship component of McKesson’s enterprise imaging offering. As a complete reporting and workflow system, Horizon Medical Imaging brings all of the patient’s images together, enabling radiologists to more quickly deliver results to the attending care team. Tight integration and tools that streamline workflow and break down interdepartmental communication barriers provide significant value to McKesson customers and its patients.

Iron Mountain’s Digital Record Center™ for Medical Images offers a fully managed “pay as you go” service.  Customers avoid the capital expenditures and the management overhead inherent in managing back-up and long-term preservation.  Disaster recovery risks are mitigated because back-up becomes an automatic, continuous process ensuring that studies are protected off-site and available for restoration if necessary.  The archiving benefits include potentially dramatic cost savings and the avoidance of managing storage, data center costs, migration and hardware obsolescence.

About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) helps organizations around the world reduce the costs and risks associated with information protection and storage. The Company offers comprehensive records management and data protection solutions, along with the expertise and experience to address complex information challenges such as rising storage costs, litigation, regulatory compliance and disaster recovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain is a trusted partner to more than 120,000 corporate and healthcare clients throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.ironmountain.com.

About McKesson
McKesson Corporation, currently ranked 18th on the FORTUNE 500, is a healthcare services and information technology company dedicated to helping its customers deliver high-quality healthcare by reducing costs, streamlining processes, and improving the quality and safety of patient care. McKesson is the longest-operating company in healthcare today, marking its 175^th anniversary this year. Over the course of its history, McKesson has grown by providing pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management across the spectrum of care; healthcare information technology for hospitals, physicians, homecare and payors; hospital and retail pharmacy automation; and services for manufacturers and payors designed to improve outcomes for patients. For more information, visit www.mckesson.com.