- Simplee integrates their patient financial engagement platform with Cerner’s revenue cycle management portfolio and consumer technology. - The integration makes it simple, efficient for providers to transform medical billing and payments into consumer-friendly experience.Simplee and Cerner Corporation today announced a new relationship aimed at price transparency, convenient billing and personalized payments options for consumers. Healthcare organizations will soon be able to use this
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Cerner Appoints Darrell Johnson as First Chief Marketing Officer
Darrell Johnson, Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Cerner
- Former Medtronic executive Darrell Johnson joins Cerner as their first SVP and Chief Marketing Officer.
- Johnson will oversee marketing, corporate communications and market intelligence in its next wave of growth to introduce its new solutions to the market.
Cerner announced today it has appointed Darrell Johnson in the newly created role of Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer where he
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Cerner Unveils 5 Finalists for code App Challenge to Advance Consumers’ Access to EHRs
- Cerner announces Baystate Health, Cerner ITWorks at Adventist Health, Intelliaide, Mindset Medical, and Optimize as the finalists for Cerner’s code App Challenge.
- The finalists will work directly with Cerner engineers at CHC, after which they will present a working demo of their app.
- The winning individual or team will receive a one-year membership to the code program, with Cerner engineers helping guide the app through the validation process.
Cerner has announced the five
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DrFirst Integrates Adobe Sign With Backline Secure Care Collaboration Platform
- DrFirst and Adobe Sign has announced the integration of Adobe Sign e-signature solution with DrFirst’s Backline secure care collaboration platform, producing the first mobile solution for the healthcare market to offer an e-signature capability.
- Using the joint solution, providers can send SMS messages to the mobile devices of patients, caregivers, or other clinicians to share documents that require signatures.
- Once received, the patient or provider can tap a link in the
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Cerner Executive VP Jeff Townsend to Retire By End of The Year
Jeff TownsendExecutive Vice President and Chief of Innovation, Cerner
Jeff Townsend, executive vice
president and chief of innovation at Cerner
announced he will retire by the end of the year. Upon his departure, Townsend
will continue to serve at Cerner in an advisory role.
“For more than 30 years, Jeff has worked diligently to position Cerner for key opportunities and prepared us to drive the next wave of health care innovation,” said Brent Shafer, chairman, and CEO, Cerner. “On behalf
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MaineGeneral Health Expands Allscripts Sunrise EHR Footprint Through 2027
· MaineGeneral Health expands Allscripts Sunrise EHR footprint through 2027
· Implementing Allscripts ambulatory platform will help MaineGeneral Health achieve a single clinical patient record
· FollowMyHealth solutions will serve as the foundation for patient engagement strategy
MaineGeneral Health has expanded its Allscripts Sunrise EHR footprint through 2027, which includes the implementation of Sunrise Ambulatory Care, the entire Sunrise Perioperative
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UTHealth, Cerner Opens Data Science Challenge Focused on Sepsis
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Biomedical informatics (SBMI) with Cerner has announced the DII National Data Science Challenge. Leveraging Cerner Health Facts® and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud support, this year’s challenge will focus on predictive accuracy for two tasks (tracks): sepsis onset and sepsis mortality. The most innovative solution (not necessarily the one with the best performance) to the above referenced tasks constitutes a third
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KLAS: Epic, Cerner, Lack Integration for Medication Inventory Management
Pharmacy and EMR vendors Cerner and Epic all have gaps in their ability to provide enterprise medication inventory management (MIM) capabilities, resulting in lower consideration rates in MIM purchase decisions, according to the latest KLAS report. The KLAS report, “Medication Inventory Management 2019: How Close Is Your Vendor to Enabling True Enterprise MIM,” reveals Cerner and Epic’s MIM software ability to serve as an agnostic solution to manage inventory across disparate hardware is not a
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Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance, Amazon Partner on Machine Learning Research Sponsorship
Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) announced today that it is working closely with Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, through a machine learning research sponsorship, to advance innovation in areas such as cancer diagnostics, precision medicine, voice-enabled technologies and medical imaging.Leveraging Machine Learning to Power Medical ResearchA unique consortium formed four years ago by UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the PHDA uses
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Cerner Launches Patient-Focused Wellness Communities for Seniors
Cerner is teaming up with LifeCenters, a planned wellness community development company, to provide primary care, pharmacy and fitness programs to senior-living communities across the country. Known as VIA Centers, residents will have access to primary care physicians and specialists including dieticians, chiropractors, fitness and health coaches at their Wellpoint properties. Through highly specialized care, the centers will engage patients and their health needs by focusing on diagnosing the
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