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Software Spotlight: Cerner

Software Spotlight: Cerner

Cerner Corporation is an independent health IT company that creates, designs, sells, installs, hosts and supports different HIT devices and hardware.  Cerner offers support with clinical, financial and operational needs to healthcare entities of all shapes and sizes.  The corporation also offers clients many additional add-on services such as off-site hosting, EMR implementations, guidance for staff, operational management services, revenue cycle services, analyses of data, system optimization services and many more.   According to www.cerner.com, they “offer strategies that empower organizations to know, manage, and engage their populations.”

Neal Patterson, Cliff Illig, and Paul Group established Cerner in 1979 in an effort to create a company that provided essential software for the healthcare industry.  Patterson and Illig are both still with the company- Patterson as CEO and IllIg as Vice Chairman.  The company is currently headquartered in North Kansas City, Missouri and employs over 15,000 people.  Cerner is known for its innovation.

5 Facts About Cerner:

1. Cerner was listed as number 1 on Fortune Magazine’s list of Most Admired Companies, ranked 4^th Healthiest Company by America by Healthiest Employers LLC, and in 2015, ranked the 34^th Most Innovative Company In The World by Forbes.
2. The founders and associates of Cerner created and support First Hand Foundation. Which, according to firsthandfoundation.org, is “a public charity that provides funding for individual children with health needs when insurance and other financial resources have been exhausted. We also create and support programs that identify issues before they become critical and that empower people to take charge of their health.”
3. Cerner is the largest independent health IT company in the country.
4. In 2014, Cerner began a partnership with Children’s National Health System, located in Washington D.C., to create the United States’ first health IT research institute.
5. The word “Cerner” derived from a Latin word meaning “to discern.”