Thread regarding McKesson Corp. layoffs

I'm a former McK employee who now works at a hospital. The hospital uses Paragon and has used it for just over two years. They just voted to go to another system. The software doesn't work and support is non-existent.

Don't know about Cerner but the article below mentions "sources" talking about dumping the software part of the business so it would not surprise me.

http://histalk2.com/2016/01/03/monday-morning-update-1416/

Rumors running amok that Paragon Financials will be sold to Cerner and the clinicals will just be trashed...has anyone else heard the same thing? Cerner employee mentioned something about that a few years ago but I ignored the statement. It has come up again and people in executive management act odd when you ask them about it.

Person doubting OP is obviously HR. Haha, that cracks me up b/c the others commenting obviously knew what the OP was talking about and substantiated it. Nice try Hammergren.

I think Paragon is okay- no real assets to sell off. It would be like selling the 1992 GEO Metro- may still be limping along but was only created as a cheap disposable necessity.

While I certainly don't defend MCK (Clueless managers - check! Doomed off-shoring plans - check!), you really have to wonder about the original poster's (OP's) motivation for the doom & gloom anonymous tirade. ANYONE can get on this site and say anything, even trolls who want to stir the pot just to be a**holes, especially when the title of the post is 100% click-bait -- Get Out Now!!

I speculate that the OP is:

...a recently let go (not in this round of layoffs) low-performer whose work attitude was a major distraction, or

...an on-the-bubble employee who knows his/her time is coming, or

...a current/former disgruntled (everyone is against me!) employee, or

...a competitor, or

...just a random troll who gets his/her jollies by riling people up.

Make no mistake, MCK needs to get its act together as far as software development is concerned....top down. MCK bought a tech company (HBOC) umpteen years ago, and upper management still has zero clue what to do with it and how to make it work. What's worse, the company makes the same mistakes over & over again. And that is 100% frustrating to employees and customers.

My whole point being...and take it from what it's worth from yet another anonymous person -- try not to get even more frustrated by reading !!! filled posts on this web site. It won't do your mind / body any good in the long run.

The only chance this company has with its software solutions is to dump paragone and bring back STAR. Written in the same language as Epic. It has been said. Should have been said a decade ago.

Some of the folks in Paragon have been through the sold/bought/sold cycle a number of times. Unisys to HBOC to MPT. Those folks have weathered the storm pretty well, so it's a crap shoot if a new company would can the resources they just purchased. The Indians, on the other hand, are fully disposable because they have no serious knowledge of the applications.

Anyone in the Paragon group who has been paying any attention is well aware of what the OP is saying. The money being blown on off-shoring and then training these clueless morons is outrageous. It makes me wonder what kind of kick backs from TCS etc the executive management is getting in return. It has the stink of back-room under-the-table deals. Just because they're flying people in for more planning doesn't mean a thing. They're already destroying the potential for the product by adding layer after layer of inept and clueless managers and more managers for those managers. Hammergren has no clue how inept the current president is. Likewise for his spineless underlings brought over from the failed Horizon product. It's been one screwup after another. Any customer with any sense would bail asap. Once they find out that the development is now based in India, they'll be bailing even faster. Our customers didn't sign up to have their software screwed up in the third world by low-skilled workers who are making things up as they go along. They deserve better.

They started agile in ERM/Encore just a few weeks or so before shutting that product down.

if this is the case why are they spending all this money on Agile and Agile planning and flying everyone into Charlotte for planning. What is going to happen to all these Agile teams? Agile is horrible because of all the meetings and the micro management. I feel like they want a report on when I go to the bathroom.

Dude, you're preaching to the choir. Paragon employees are already painfully aware of what is going down and exiting at a rapid pace.