Cerner SurgiNet

The Cerner Millennium® SurgiNet® Surgery and Anesthesia Information System provides perioperative teams with the tools necessary to run a safe, efficient operating room. SurgiNet allows perioperative teams to deliver surgical and anesthesia care on a unified architecture. As a result, you can perform data capture of key metrics necessary to improving clinical, operational and financial outcomes.

Cerner perioperative solutions allow nurses, doctors and surgery team members to eliminate waste and serve more patients more effectively and in less time. SurgiNet provides clinicians with the most advanced solution that directly addresses the surgery and anesthesia markets’ complex needs.

The SurgiNet perioperative solution addresses all aspects of perioperative care, including:

• Preference card management, scheduling and comprehensive reporting
• Complete documentation for pre-, intra-, post-operative and the PACU
• Anesthesia documentation and tools necessary to automating the practice of anesthesia
• Case tracking (an automated big board or white board) for monitoring patient status
• Clinical Supply Chain to connect clinical events to supply usage

Cerner PathNet

The Cerner PathNet^® laboratory information system offers clinicians comprehensive, fully integrated technology to automate the operational and managerial sides of the laboratory—the only system of its kind to do so. And because the PathNet family of solutions operates on the unified Cerner Millennium^® architecture, information links seamlessly with the patient’s electronic medical record.

Our solutions, founded on the expertise of more than 20 years’ worth of experience in the laboratory IT community, address four key segments:

• Clinical
• Anatomic Pathology
• Genomics
• Laboratory Outreach

Key Benefits:

• Process large quantities of specimens safely and efficiently
• Reduce instances of lost or misplaced specimens
• Seamlessly integrate lab results with the patient’s electronic medical record

Cerner PharmNet

In the pharmacy patient safety is paramount, but so are efficiency and cost effectiveness. Pharmacy executives need a complete solution to manage medication administration, reconciliation, point-of-care and Medicare reimbursement.

PharmNet is built on the unified Cerner Millennium architecture. As a core component of Cerner pharmacy solutions, PharmNet organizes data around the person rather than the encounter. This eliminates duplication and increases patient safety and care team communication by placing data only once in a central. Only Cerner can completely close the medication loop with a comprehensive suite of solutions including Cerner Millennium® CareMobile® and the RxStation^TM.

Cerner Millennium® PharmNet® gives pharmacists and pharmacy administrators the ability to increase safety and improve pharmacy management. PharmNet links pharmacists, nurses and physicians from the time caregivers order medication through its administration, ensuring efficiency, continuity and safety.

With PharmNet, pharmacists have the ability to:

• Access more patient information
• Monitor patients around the clock with knowledge-driven alerts
• Share information directly with other caregivers
• Provide a continuous pathway for patient care delivery
• Support point-of-care medication storage, inventory and administration
• Produce fill lists and medication administration records automatically or on demand
• Work more closely with patients through mobile access and automated clinical-decision support

Cerner FirstNet

With more than 200 EDs using FirstNet^® today, Cerner has the breadth and depth of experience to help you automate your ED. And integration with a complete electronic medical record allows your organization to:

• Streamline operational processes: Designed by ED clinicians for ED clinicians, FirstNet will help your organization improve its workflow, starting with integrating data from prior to the patient’s arrival in the ED, through triage and finally until patient discharge.
• Optimize patient care: FirstNet provides clinicians one source for obtaining vital patient information, such as allergies, medication administration records and past medical history. In addition, embedded data from our network of partners help support the clinical decision-making process.
• Enhance financial performance: Due to the fast-paced environment in the ED, services often go undocumented and are not billable. FirstNet enables you to deliver high-quality care quickly and still receive appropriate reimbursement. With the solution’s unmatched, embedded documentation and coding support, your documents will drive a charge assignment and billing process that supports appropriate levels of reimbursement, often providing a net reimbursement increase of more than $50 per ED visit.

Cerner PowerChart

Built upon the scalable, unified, person-centric Cerner Millennium® architecture, Cerner’s PowerChart® solution is CCHITsm certified and meets the inpatient electronic health record (EHR) criteria for 2007. CCHIT certification—a seal of approval for EHR products—provides the first consensus-based, government-recognized benchmark for inpatient EHR products. By looking to CCHIT certified products, acute care providers can reduce their risk in selecting EHRs for CPOE and eMAR.

By combining all essential elements of the EHR into a single solution, PowerChart delivers more than other systems. You get the benefits of a clinical database, with functionality allowing you to view clinical data, complete orders and optimize clinician documentation in one powerful solution.

The universal PowerChart framework can be leveraged across multiple roles, venues and disciplines, thereby driving efficiencies and user adoption. The solution provides a foundation for a multitude of Cerner point-of-care solutions, including those for home care, physician offices, clinics, acute patient care, critical care, and long-term and rehabilitation services.

Key Benefits:

• Improve coordination and identification of patients
• Positively impact cash flow
• Access records at any time from any location
• Optimize workflow efficiency and performance

Cerner Electronic Medical Record

Cerner’s powerful, intelligent Electronic Medical Record (EMR) delivers the most comprehensive set of capabilities in the industry. Built upon scalable, unified, person-centric Cerner Millennium® architecture, Cerner’s PowerChart ® solution functionality creates an enterprise-wide, multi-facility, longitudinal EMR that spans role and venue.

Authorized physicians, nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians and business office personnel can all access one patient record at the same time—an impossible task with a cumbersome paper chart. With a single, integrated EMR, information is available whenever and wherever it’s needed.

In addition, Cerner Millennium is designed with built-in expert medical knowledge which helps your organization increase efficiencies and eliminate manual actions.

By integrating existing laboratory, radiology and pharmacy data into a single enterprise clinical data repository, caregivers can reduce the risk of medical error and improve overall care quality. Having an EMR to manage the medical records of patients in both the acute care and ambulatory settings provides a mechanism to view, manage and store information, not just data.

Key Benefits:

• Improve the quality and efficiency of care delivery
• Combine financial, operational and clinical information for comprehensive analysis
• Connect facilities hundreds of miles apart in a variety of settings, including acute, sub-acute, ambulatory and rehabilitation environments
• Access current and complete patient information in a way that best suits your custom needs

Cerner INet

The INet® family of Cerner Critical Care™ solutions helps clinicians heighten patient safety and streamline care processes. Physicians and nurses access real-time information to automate the care processes and improve outcomes.

Used together, the critical care family of solutions offers intensive care units a comprehensive system of solutions, advanced technologies and outcomes-management tools.

Critical Core provides a flexible foundation to address clinicians’ unique needs, including:

• Unified nurse and physician documentation
• Integrated orders and tasks
• Results
• Electronic medication administration record (eMAR)

Critical Connections offers:

• Virtual monitoring
• Point-of-care medication-administration tools
• Connectivity with bedside medical devices (BMDI) for interactive documentation

Critical Knowledge includes knowledge-management tools that push content to the right clinicians at the right time to better coordinate care and improve quality.

Cerner ProVision PACS

Cerner ProVision™ PACS workstations provide you with a rich set of user-customizable image-analysis and -manipulation tools. Optional capabilities include native 3-D and new orthopedic planning and mammography packages. Using Cerner ProVision™ PACS workstations allows you to:

• Generate continued returns from legacy modality investments with support for widely used DICOM standards
• Enable synchronization of patient and study information between modalities, including the RIS, PACS and Voice Recognition
• Decrease turnaround report time from hours or days to mere minutes

Additional PACS solutions include:

• Cerner ProVision Study Validation Server (SVS): Provides precise validation and synchronization of patient demographic and exam data with image data
• Cerner ProVision Web: Seamless access to images within the electronic medical record (EMR)
• MultiMedia Foundation™: Integrate clinical multimedia objects within the electronic medical record
• Radiology Desktop: An intuitive user interface that logically displays all critical information and interpretation tools for the radiologist
• Orthopedic Planning: Allows orthopedists to establish a filmless environment.
• Cerner ProVIsion PACS Mammography suite: A comprehensive set of mammography imaging tools in a single workstation
• Cerner and the IHE: An initiative by medical specialists, administrators and IT professionals to improve the way healthcare computer systems share information

Cerner RadNet

The Cerner RadNet^® RIS helps you streamline departmental operations—from registration and order entry, through worklist management and image interpretation, to image and result distribution and business analysis. When you need such critical data as allergies, lab values or current medications, radiology clinicians can access it at the click of a mouse. RadNet also allows your department to perform exam coding and procedural documentation more efficiently, as well as streamline documentation. With only a few key strokes, you can optimize revenue and profitability.

Key Benefits:

• Streamline and automate workflow processes
• Collect, display, manage and instantly deliver vital patient information
• Increase clinical and operational performance
• Improve patient safety and reduce error

Radiology solutions include:

• Cerner ProVision™ PACS: A rich set of user-customizable image-analysis and -manipulation tools
• Radiology Desktop: An intuitive user interface that logically displays all critical clinical information at the time of interpretation
• Visual Desktop Integration: Streamlined access to vital RIS information from a third-party PACS
• Mammography Management: Comprehensive solution for the management of mammography workflow
• Cerner and the IHE: An initiative by medical specialists, administrators and IT professionals to improve the way healthcare computer systems share information

Cerner CareAware

Connecting medical devices to the EMR is an important next step for healthcare organizations. CareAware™ places the EMR at the center of all information generated and stored on the patient to create a single source of truth™.

The CareAware architecture enables healthcare organizations:

• Connect people to medical devices
• Connect devices to clinician workflow
• Connect workflow to improved patient outcomes

The CareAware architecture offers a scalable, enterprise approach to device connectivity. This approach delivers key benefits including improved workflow, enhanced safety and better management of devices across an organization.

The architecture includes several key components, including the MDBus™, iCommand™, iAware™, CareAware myStation™, and the RxStation™.

• CareAware MDBus is a core component of the architecture that facilitates plug-and-play connectivity between a device and the EMR. Additional components include CareAware iAware and iCommand.
• CareAware iCommand centralizes device management by providing content, control and real-time status of all modalities on the network. This unique solution provides device management through accurate alerts and alarms.
• CareAware iAware provides clinicians a single, personalized view of all information relevant to patient care.
• CareAwareTM myStation is an interactive patient care solution that empowers patients and families to become more active participants in the care process.
• CareAware RxStation devices and workflow solutions allow healthcare organizations to automate the medication process for both nursing and pharmacy. The unique, modular designs of the RxStation devices configure to meet clinical and operational needs.