McKesson's Turn at the Stake.

It's neck and neck between our two finalists, and McKesson is still slightly edging out Lockheed 52-48. This game is close! Have you voted yet?

For our half-time show today, we'll continue our trek through the competitors' home towns. Today's visit to McKesson takes us to their website, where we found this bit of news proudly placed in the upper-left hand corner of their home page:

McKesson Corporation, the world's leading healthcare services company, has released the latest version of its premier, evidence-based InterQual Criteria, which includes updates across the range of clinical criteria and extends its innovative care facilitation criteria designed to support proactive reviews and discharge planning for all inpatient levels of care. The release also includes new criteria for "controversial" procedures and imaging studies to help guide care managers in discussions with medical directors.

It's not hard to see why this team is still in the tourney! The same star who wrote the annual letter must also write these releases. Let's try to dissect this one to see if we can make some sense of it: so, McKesson is releasing some criteria, which includes lots of medical updates, and extends some stuff .... oh, we give up! Read that first sentence again, people, and tell us if you can understand it! The release drones on:

These workflow applications leverage the InterQual 2005 criteria and add a powerful new set of integration capabilities, including enhanced options for using Solucient(R) length-of-stay data files within the review process on a PC or PDA.

Have these people ever heard of a period? Full stop? End sentence? We'll give anybody $100 who can interpret the above. With verbal diarrhea this bad, who needs diets?!?!

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We'll continue the tournament updates tomorrow, and on Monday will announce this year's Shining Beacon of Business Idiocy. You won't want to miss it.