Cerner Corp. news and information

The College of Health Information Management Executives' 2013 Fall CIO Forum wrapped up Friday in Scottsdale, Ariz., with a spate of announcements and award presentations.
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Intermountain Healthcare has signed a deal to adopt Cerner's clinical and financial healthcare information technology software systems across its entire network of 22 hospitals and 185 clinics. Terms of the contract were not announced.
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Hospital systems, especially those that are purchasing physician practices and expanding outpatient clinics to pursue greater care coordination, face a pressing need to track patients no matter where they receive care. Interoperability between EHRs has...
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Zane Burke, an executive of Cerner Corp. since 1996, has been promoted to president of the North Kansas City, Mo.-based developer of electronic health-record systems.
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Health information technology systems developer Cerner Corp. went mall shopping for another corporate office complex, but is waiting on tax breaks from local government before it goes through with the deal.
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Four healthcare systems and technology giant IBM have joined the Premier healthcare alliance in a data analytics venture, making the second announcement this week of healthcare providers going in with a big-data partner.
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Even as the Truman Medical Centers system in Kansas City, Mo., received recognition for achieving the highest levels of information technology adoption, President and CEO John Bluford was also exploring a low-tech approach to improving his community's health: opening a grocery store.
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Epic Systems Corp. sits atop a heap of more than 400 developers of complete electronic health-record systems for ambulatory-care physicians and other eligible professionals who have received federal EHR incentive payments, federal data shows.
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Epic Systems Corp. and Meditech have the most customers receiving federal electronic health-record system incentive payments in the two key categories for hospital systems, federal data show.
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When thousands of Gulf Coast residents fled Hurricane Katrina, many of their paper-based medical records were soaked or blown to the winds. Ever since, proponents of electronic health-record systems and health...
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