CareFusion: Promoting Safety and Reducing Health Care Cost

CareFusion’s products and services are used worldwide. The existence of the company is strongly anchored in the mission of lowering the cost of health care services while improving safety within the hospital facilities.

There are more than 16,650 associates that the company employs around the globe. The company’s offerings are categorized under two areas: prevention of health care-associated infections and reducing medication errors. The company is the name behind the innovations like the Pyxis automated dispensing and patient identification systems, Alaris IV pumps and several series of respiratory products and ventilators. Additionally, they also manufacture several surgical instruments that assist interventional medicine.

Headquartered in San Diego, California, the company continues to trade its common stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. Its shares are marketed using the symbol CFN. The business continues to compete in the Medical Technology industry. In October 2014, the company was acquired by Becton Dickson for $12.2 billion.