Cerner Offers Enhanced Solution to Enable Information Sharing between Hospitals and Physician Practices
December 16, 2009
Cerner Media Contact: Sarah
Bond, (816) 885-8020, sarah.bond@cerner.com
Cerner Investors Contact: Allan Kells,
(816) 201-2445, akells@cerner.com
Certify Media Contact: Gary
Hopkins, (805) 705-2586, gary@blancohopkins.com
Cerner Offers Enhanced
Solution to Enable Information Sharing between Hospitals and Physician
Practices
Cerner will offer Certify
Data Systems’ HealthDock™ to make clinical information sharing faster, easier
for physician practices
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dec.
16, 2009 — Finding a way to easily and quickly share information from
electronic health records (EHRs) between hospitals and physician practices that
are using different EHR systems is a key problem for the healthcare industry.
As more organizations implement EHR systems to take advantage of the incentives
offered through the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act the problem
will continue to compound. To make the process of electronically sharing
clinical information faster and easier for healthcare providers, Cerner
(Nasdaq: CERN) is strengthening its existing Cerner Hub connectivity services
by offering the Certify Data Systems’ HealthDock™. The HealthDock™ is an
appliance that enables the electronic flow of clinical data securely between
hospitals and physician practice settings, regardless of the EHR system being
used.
“Ease of connectivity is a vital missing ingredient to
widespread physician acceptance of EHRs,” said Zane Burke, Cerner senior vice
president. “We identified Certify’s HealthDock™ appliance as the best
connectivity solution to enhance Cerner Hub services and to achieve Cerner’s
commitment to achieve true interoperability. The Cerner Hub and the Certify
HealthDock™ create a disruptive offering that simplifies information sharing
across the care continuum no matter what EHRs are in use.”
The Cerner Hub in conjunction with the Certify HealthDock™
provides the mechanism to remove a considerable amount of laborious paper
processing between hospitals, physicians, reference labs, imaging centers and
other care settings. The offering enables bi-directional sharing of clinical
information from patient visits such as test results, radiology reports,
discharge summaries and other clinical reports. The information is transferred
real-time into physician practice EHRs. The Certify HealthDock™ also allows
physician practices to electronically submit radiology and lab orders directly
to the hospital, removing paper requisitions from the ordering process.
“Cerner and Certify share a common goal to help clinicians make
informed decisions about patient care by providing them with the right
information at the right time,” said Marc Willard, Certify Data Systems’
founder and CEO. “The HealthDock™ will enable the Cerner Hub to share important
clinical information seamlessly with primary care providers and specialists. We
are very pleased to partner with a leading organization like Cerner to offer
their clients our connectivity solution.”
The Cerner Hub and the Certify HealthDock™ solution makes data
sharing less of a hassle for hospitals and physician practices by:
• Eliminating the need for hospital IT staff to spend time
and money developing interfaces between multiple physician practice EHR
systems;
• Improving the speed of data sharing through a real-time, secure
HIPAA-compliant network;
• Providing the hospital and physician practice complete auditing and
delivery guarantees; and
• Incorporating a distributed patient matching process that enables the
physician office to ensure clinical information is delivered into the
appropriate patient chart.
“Before we had the Certify HealthDock™ our nurses were spending
two days a week re-keying the hospital’s lab results into our EMR (electronic
medical record),” said Dr. Robert Middleton, Cardiologist at Cardiovascular
Consultants in Auburn, Wash. “Now they focus that time on patient care. The
amount of time this has saved our physicians, nursing staff and medical records
team has been significant. The electronic merging with our EMR has been
effortless and continues to allow our staff to get results to patients in a timely
manner.”
About Cerner
Cerner is transforming healthcare by eliminating error, variance and waste for
healthcare providers and consumers around the world. Cerner® solutions optimize
processes for healthcare organizations ranging in size from single-doctor
practices, to health systems, to entire countries, for the pharmaceutical and
medical device industries, and for the healthcare commerce system. These
solutions are licensed by more than 8,000 facilities around the world,
including approximately 2,100 hospitals; 3,300 physician practices covering
more than 30,000 physicians; 500 ambulatory facilities, such as laboratories,
ambulatory centers, cardiac facilities, radiology clinics and surgery centers;
600 home-health facilities; and 1,500 retail pharmacies. The following are trademarks
of Cerner: Cerner and Cerner’s logo. Nasdaq: CERN. For more information about
Cerner, please visit our Web site at www.cerner.com.
About Certify Data
Systems
Certify Data Systems, Inc. enables connectivity between hospitals and
physicians in a manner that is uniquely easy to deploy, scale, manage and
support. Certify employs sophisticated, proprietary technology that is
fundamentally different from any other solution available today. Through the
HealthDock™ appliance, Certify simplifies the time-consuming,
resource-intensive and traditionally expensive process of interfacing with
physician EMRs. Certify gives hospitals and health systems a new tool to
seamlessly connect their physicians. The Certify solution delivers
health information across the “last mile” of interoperability without changing
the way hospitals or physicians work. Certify is headquartered in San Jose,
Calif. For more information please visit the Certify website at www.certifydatasystems.com.
HealthDock™ is a trademark of Certify Data Systems, Inc.