Cerner Scheduling Management coordinates appointment scheduling across an integrated or disparate health system.

Scheduling management automates the appointment scheduling process from both centralized and decentralized booking locations within a department, and/or a facility. This setting may consist of one to many physical locations, each united by a common environment.

• Manage scheduling across multiple facilities and schedule a series of appointments
• Validate medical necessity at serval points in the workflow
• Prevent adverse appointment and procedure interactions
• Easily move appointments around in a single view

Cerner Registration Management solution was designed to help automate the workflow and process of registration, admitting, transfers and discharges.

Registration Management creates the encounter and a Master Person Identifier (MPI) that becomes the basis for coordinating the person’s movement across an integrated or disparate health system. Register patients using an integrated workflow with embedded transaction services.

• Collect co-pay or payments on outstanding balances prior to care being delivered
• Validate eligibility and benefits in near real-time or batch functionality
• Manage your staff’s workload with interactive work lists

Cerner and Experian Health have created a strategic partnership that will support patient financial clearance activities for your organization and the patients you serve.

Our suite of solutions and services are equipped with user-friendly workflows and reporting functions that efficiently and accurately help your organization confidently determine an appropriate financial pathway for every patient in near real-time.

• Validate that the patient’s address is valid and deliverable
• Determine a patient’s propensity to pay by estimating income and household size
• Screen for Medicaid, charity and other financial assistance programs
• Provide patients with a bill estimate prior to their visit
• Automatically send admission notification to payers

Manage a patient’s identity with a facility-wide offering that enables storage and maintenance of your patients’ data, including demographic, relationship, guarantor, employer and insurance information.  EMPI facilitates the integrity of a single person record and enables the end-user to find the right person at the right time, while helping to reduce as many duplicate person records as possible.

• One patient record and financial view that can be shared across clinic and hospital venue
• Create a central repository across your facility for patient demographic, relationship, guarantor, employer and insurance information

The Cerner Patient Kiosk is a patient-facing solution that engages patients in the registration process.  Our self-serve solution allows patients to check-in for appointments, view and update demographics and insurance information and complete registration forms.

• Patients are able to swipe credit card or manually enter their demographic data to identify themselves
• Patients can view appointment information, confirm it’s correct and check-in for their appointment
• Forms requiring signatures are presented to the patient and once signed are stored into the patient’s EHR

Patient Kiosk is now available.  Ask about how you can get one for your organization.

Yes, with Cerner’s single platform approach across clinical and financial systems, we’ve embedded core EDI services like verifying a patient’s address, checking eligibility and benefits and validating medical necessity checks within the registration workflow.