Fort HealthCare in rural Jefferson county, Wisconsin, is the sole hospital and only local resource of opioid stewardship. Between 2015-2017, the county death rate due to opioid overdose nearly tripled, and in 2017 alone, the county death rate due to opioid abuse exceeded the entire state of Wisconsin by 31%.
Baptist Health logged 86 service requests with Cerner AMS Oracle in the first year of AMS support, and the relationship is helping Baptist Health HR to move onto the right path for what’s next in the Oracle Cloud roadmap.
Plumas District Hospital switches from paper-based system to clinically driven revenue cycle
https://www.cerner.com/client-achievements/plumas-district-hospital-switches-from-paper-based-system
Early sepsis detection and proactive intervention help reduce sepsis mortality rates and decrease code blue calls to resuscitate patients.
After implementing Cerner Soarian Financials® in 2011, the health system began utilizing EMUE™ and health care extensibility platform (HEP) automation to save time and money, in turn helping support patients.
Cancer center improves chemotherapy infusion efficiency after transition from paper records to EHR
https://www.cerner.com/client-achievements/sw-general-health-transitions-from-paper-record-to-ehr
Genesis ACO uses data, care management tools to help improve quality measures
https://www.cerner.com/client-achievements/genesis-aco-uses-data-care-management-tools
Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt-57357 reduces patient deterioration with help from early warning score
Northern Light Patient Management started working with the Cerner Value Management Advisory Services team to help improve blood management data collection.
After a 15-month implementation of Cerner electronic health record (EHR) and Cerner Millennium® revenue cycle management solutions at three hospitals in Chicago and Dallas that started in June 2019, Pipeline Health and Cerner worked together to begin a 90-day revenue cycle optimization engagement in early March 2021.
North Kansas City Hospital leverages Cerner technology to expedite COVID-19 vaccine distribution
https://www.cerner.com/client-achievements/north-kc-covid-vaccine-distribution
Proactive program keeps patients on top of medication refills during pandemic
Children’s Hospital of Orange County receives second HIMSS Davies Award
https://www.cerner.com/client-achievements/choc-second-davies-award
While dealing with low patient volumes and a hybrid workforce, Children’s National Hospital implemented a clinically driven revenue cycle and simultaneously managed its legacy accounts receivable (A/R) system.
One step leaders at Banner Health are taking to improve efficiency at their outpatient clinics is streamlining their adult intake form.
Collaborative approach guides virtual desktop infrastructure project, supporting caregivers’ efficiency and satisfaction
Through an optimization process at University of Missouri Health Care, the health system and Cerner worked together to standardize procedures, reducing costs by more than $55,000.
Clinicians at Universal Health Services have developed an innovative tool to ensure patients who need an alternate feeding method get the right nutrients.
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research receive HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award of Excellence for proving it provides excellent care utilizing health information technology.
Other efforts in the health system included alerts, education and clinical decision support which helped lower the number of opioid prescriptions given to patients.
With more health care services becoming digital, Banner Health is taking advantage of allowing third-party companies to fully interact within its electronic health record.
Cerner Transition Services helped critical-access hospital decrease average A/R days, standard delay and ready-to-bill days following revenue cycle implementation.
The Asheville, N.C.-based health system added Cerner Patient Observer to six neurosciences unit patient beds in August 2015. During the study, the average falls rate – as measured per 1,000 patient days of care – dropped from four per month to zero.
https://www.cerner.com/client-achievements/mission-health-reduces-falls-to-zero
Cerner helped Lakeland Regional Health with the first round of an optimization project. Afterward, health system leaders took the lessons learned and continued the process.
When it came to following up on abnormal lab results taken in the emergency department (ED), nurses at Sharp HealthCare spent too much time printing charts, collecting handwritten information and preparing packets for physicians.
While most of the U.S. health care market inches toward value-based care, Roper St. Francis Healthcare in Charleston, South Carolina, has fully adopted the payment model as part of its more than 150-year-old mission: “Healing all people with compassion, faith and excellence.”
Leaders at Clara Barton Hospital & Clinics in Hoisington, Kansas, recognize the role of revenue cycle stability in the critical access hospital’s continued vitality.
https://www.cerner.com/client-achievements/stable-revenue-cycle-at-clara-barton
When the COVID-19 pandemic landed in the U.S., and health system leaders’ financial concerns increased, Macon Community Hospital (MCH) chose not only to switch revenue cycle solutions in the middle of it but chose to do it virtually.
A tweak to the EHR prevented residents and fellows from signing certain notes without first identifying an attending physician to forward them to. The change helped end frustrations among clinicians and the billing department.
Nearly 70% of the U.S. adult population does not have a plan for end-of-life care. Intermountain Healthcare recognized the need to improve the quality of advance care planning to know and honor the wishes of the patients they serve.