Cerner Corp. news and information

Five major health IT companies announced plans for a shared, centralized platform.
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Cerner Corp., a Kanas City, Mo.-based health information technology company, has inked a deal to acquire PureWellness, a Burlington, Vt., firm that makes software for population health.
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For several months after Truman Medical Center dropped its patient referral system because of cost, the hospital was processing 2,000 monthly patient referrals using only Microsoft Access.
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Providers have chosen their favorite healthcare IT vendors in a market research firm's annual survey, and Epic Systems Corp., Verona, Wis., came out as the preferred software vendor in eight of 23 categories.
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Cerner Corp.’s board has approved the repurchase of as much as $170 million of its common stock, the North Kansas City-based healthcare technology company announced.
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Cerner Corp. has agreed to acquire behavioral health technology provider Anasazi Software.
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Three-hundred-and-thirty-three vendors of complete electronic health-record systems for ambulatory care have had at least one customer attest to having met the Medicare EHR incentive payment program's meaningful-use criteria.
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The digital divide between large and urban hospitals and their smaller and more-rural counterparts may be closing, based on an analysis of a federal database of electronic health-record systems and the EHR vendors supplying products for hospitals participating in the Medicare EHR incentive payment...
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The labels "cheap," "free" and "government-sponsored," respectively, could describe the three top-rated electronic health-record systems in a just-released online survey of more than 21,000 physicians.
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The market for electronic health-record systems is slowing for hospitals of 200 or more beds as two developers, Epic Systems and Cerner, consolidate their positions atop the heap, according to health IT market watcher KLAS Enterprises, Orem, Utah.
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