April 19, 2013
East Jefferson General Hospital (EJGH) is a 450-bed, state-of the-art community hospital that serves the greater New Orleans region, served by a staff of more than 3,000, including more than 650 physicians. With a focus on patient-centered care, EJGH was recognized with its third consecutive American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet designation and was the first Magnet organization in Louisiana.
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March 13, 2013
The HIMSS/WEDI ICD-10 National Pilot Program is a unique opportunity for providers and their billing services to test the changes they and their vendors have made for ICD-10 and see what impact the change to ICD-10 codes will have on claims submitted to health plans.
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February 23, 2012
We’re pleased to welcome Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson to our HIMSS12 booth (476). Dr. Swanson is a mother, practicing pediatrician and blogger at the forefront of conversations around how social media can improve health care. Dr. Swanson will be discussing how social media and technology enable care providers to create strong connections with their patients. We had a chance to sit down with her for a quick Q&A session.
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February 02, 2012
As many of you now know, Florida Hospital Flagler will be recognized by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) as one of 66 hospitals (out of more than 5,000) qualifying as Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR adoption scale at HIMSS12. The dedication and hard work of the Adventist Health System (AHS) Information Services teams and the strong IT vision put forth by David Ottati, CEO, and his leadership team at Florida Hospital Flagler made this achievement possible.
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December 07, 2011
Recently, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) awarded Stage 6 Certification to Hospital de Dénia (Dénia, Spain). Currently, only seven hospitals in Europe have received Stage 6 recognition from the HAE (HIMSS Analytics Europe).HIMSS Stage 6 demonstrates that Hospital de Dénia provides, among other benefits, structured and continuous clinical documentation and a closed medication cycle using a unified hospital system, Cerner Millennium, to give providers a horizontal vision of care, reduce patient risks and increase the quality of care.
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February 22, 2011
In the past several months, we’ve shared the stories of Children’s Hospital Boston and Carroll County Memorial Hospital. These organizations represent two very different communities, but have both reached significant accomplishments in healthcare IT – Reaching Stage 7 on the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model for Children’s Hospital Boston and HIMSS Stage 6 for Carroll County Memorial Hospital.
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February 19, 2011
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference kicks off this weekend and many healthcare professionals will be headed to Orlando to take advantage of the conference’s educational and networking opportunities. While Cerner will not have a booth on the showroom floor, we are excited to support our clients and partners and to participate in important initiatives such as the interoperability showcase.
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January 04, 2011
CommunityWorks is a division of Cerner that focuses on
partnering with Community and Critical Access Hospitals. We’ve been working
closely with Carroll County Memorial Hospital (Carrollton, MO) since last March
and are proud to announce that CCMH become just the 4th Critical Access
Hospital in the U.S. to reach HIMSS Stage 6 on the EMR Adoption Model. This
puts them in the top 3.5% of all
U.S. hospitals in terms of EMR adoption. CCMH went live on the CommunityWorks Millennium
Software as a Service (SaaS) offering on September 1.
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December 02, 2010
On Wednesday, November 17, 2010, North York General Hospital (NYGH) in Toronto, Canada hosted business partners and members of the provincial parliament to celebrate recent advancements in improving patient safety, culminating in the October 26th go-live of a project called eCare.
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