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IT Provider Enhances Security and Meets Customer Needs With New Operating System

Cerner Corporation creates healthcare IT solutions for hospitals, physician offices, employers, and government organizations. The company is responsible for sensitive data and required an operating system that would help it enhance security. It began upgrading to the Windows Vista operating system. Now, Cerner enjoys better use of its IT resources,...

Tags: Cerner Corp., Security, Physician, Information Technology, Operating System, Strategy, Operating Systems, Management, Software

Case studies 2008-07-10

Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?

Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?...And people wonder why I hate corporations so much! Here is a perfectly functioning system of which I am a member of as a disabled veteran and now because of greed, we have to have our services jeopardized?!This is total bullsh!t and exactly...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), HEALTHCARE, Microsoft Windows Vista, Maduro, Cerner Corp., health care

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

The Google backlash at HIMSS

The Google backlash at HIMSSNaw, its not abotu "standads"Its abotu who has the best produt and highest reliability which of course leaves Google out in the cold.RE: The Google backlash at HIMSSWhy the disdain for Cerner? I've just started reading your blog, but it doesn't seem you care too...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Strategy, HeathCare, Cerner Corp., HIMSS, EMR, Google Backlash, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

The Google backlash at HIMSS

The gang at Modern Healthcare Online detected a notable backlash against Google during this week's HIMSS show. There was a "Little Red Hen" feeling about the complaints, an impression that hospitals have spent 40 years preparing this automation bill of fare but now the Googlers were going...

Tags: Cerner Corp., Google Inc., Siemens AG, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., McKesson, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-29

Alliances represent new Microsoft direction

Now that "Elvis has left the building" at Microsoft, you may be wondering what direction it has marked for future growth. In a word, alliances. It's a dicey proposition given that Microsoft is now everywhere in the world of computing. But that's where it's...

Tags: Cerner Corp., Alliance, Microsoft Corp., Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-07

Is the VA going proprietary?

The Veterans Administration has chosen a proprietary system from Cerner called PathNet to automate its laboratories. The same system was also chosen by the Department of Defense. This is a big loss for the VA's VistA system, on which WorldVistA is based. This makes it unlikely that...

Tags: Cerner Corp., VA, Veterans Administration, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-12

Cerner Corporation Leverages Actionable Intelligence to Drive Data-Driven Decisions Across the Enterprise

Cerner Corporation wanted to meet the goal to provide "The perfect experience" for clients, both internal and external. The challenge was to gain a greater understanding of client and financial data and provide intelligence to associates across the enterprise by pulling information from a variety of data sources. 7,000 users...

Tags: Cerner Corp., Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2007-07-01

Cerner Looks to BMC AppSight to improve quality and time to market

Do you want to maximize the availability of your information solutions, while reducing development and support costs? See how Cerner is using the BMC AppSight Application Problem Resolution System throughout the application lifecycle to deliver more robust applications more quickly, while lowering QA and support costs.

Tags: Cerner Corp., BMC Software Inc., It Management, It service Management

Case studies 2007-01-01

Cerner Corporation: Tiered Storage Solutions for ILM

Mirroring their passion for healthcare, this tiered storage architecture helps Cerner manage data according to its value or accessibility requirements, while keeping IT costs down.

Tags: Cerner Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Storage, Tiered Storage

Webcasts 2007-01-01

Cerner Corporation: Keeping Up With Demand

As a leading supplier of clinical information systems, Cerner looks to the HP BladeSystem to keep up with demand, provide a more manageable infrastructure, and improve datacenter savings.

Tags: Cerner Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Webcasts 2007-01-01

Cerner Takes Business Service Management Approach to Ensure Availability of Critical Healthcare Systems

Cerner Corporation is the leading supplier of information technology to the healthcare industry. Cerner wanted to connect the appropriate persons, knowledge, and resources to achieve optimal healthcare outcomes. The challenge was to link IT components to the goals of the business to ensure availability of applications that support healthcare systems....

Tags: Cerner Corp., BMC Software Inc., Business Service, Business Service Management, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Case studies 2006-06-01

HP Technology Helps Cerner Revolutionize the Healthcare Industry

Kansas City-based Cerner Corporation's passion for healthcare - its sole focus since its founding in 1979 - is driven by its large number of staff members who came from the healthcare industry, including physicians, nurses, med techs and X-ray techs. These people know that healthcare is fraught with needless, redundant...

Tags: Cerner Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Case studies

Streamlining Operations to Deliver Better Healthcare Services

Winona Health is a multi-care health system with hospital, physician clinics, pharmacy, assisted living, long-term care, home care, and hospice. The organization wanted to deploy a robust financial management solution with integrated human resources and payroll functionality, and integrate it with their Cerner Millennium patient information systems. Winona Health implemented...

Tags: Cerner Corp., Health Care, Winona Health, Financial Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

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HIMSS moving on interoperability roadmap

One of the big problems in hospital computing has long been simple interoperability. Given the high sales cost and high value of a hospital sale, vendors resist this. Proprietary protections make the HIMSS show floor look like a trip back to the 1980s. There are big booths...

Tags: Open Standard, Goal, Workflow, Hospital Computing, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Medsphere now says open source will make it dominant

"We’re the only open source provider in health care IT." As a result Medsphere Systems Corp. of Aliso Viejo believes it will one day be the biggest. The man making the prediction was new Medsphere CEO Michael Doyle. He has been on the job for just a...

Tags: Billing, Health Care, Medsphere Systems Corp., Doyle, Open Source, Vertical Industries, Corporate Governance, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-26

On the outsourcing hot seat

On the outsourcing hot seatLet's see, how can I put this..."Q: Who wins and who loses from offshore relocations? A: The Indian companies and Indian employees win, and so do the American companies that outsource. For the American companies, this clearly is an instrument for them to improve their productivity,...

Tags: Government, Benefits, Strategy, outsourcing, outsource

Discussion threads 2004-01-20