Cerner Millennium

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Cerner was founded in 1979 by Neal Patterson, Cliff Illig, and Paul Gorup who respectively serve as the CEO, Vice Chairman, and Vice President of the Knowledge & Content Team. The company's mission is to connect the appropriate persons, knowledge and resources at the appropriate time and location to achieve the optimal health outcome. As a result, the founders created the industry's first person-centric integrated architecture - Cerner Millennium. This architecture allows caregivers and supporting providers the ability to view results, problems, diagnosis, medications, and other pertinent information in real-time. In a continued effort to reduce waste and friction in healthcare, Cerner has developed many solutions including employee health, life sciences, medical devices, clinical trial management, and biosurveillance.

The company is headquartered in Kansas City, MO and has approximately 1,500 clients. Associates span 7,300 worldwide with offices in Malaysia, Australia, India, United Arab Emirates, and many others.

Cerner’s use of Oracle’s Database Technology

Cerner Millennium applications use an Oracle database and provide a common data model to enable data sharing between applications and to eliminate redundant data, while maximizing reliability and performance. This implementation runs on a variety of networks, processors and operating systems, including Windows XP Professional and any Internet browser. http://cerner.com/public/Cerner_2.asp?id=27196

All Millennium installs take advantage of the full Oracle database stack (9iEE, RAC, and the Management Packs). Oracle’s Real Application Clustering (RAC) enables both reliability and scalability by allowing the addition of servers to the host cluster. Cerner also uses Oracle’s Tuning Pack, Diagnostic Pack, and Change Management Pack to help protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of its Millennium healthcare data. Oracle’s EAL 4 (Evaluation Assurance Level 4) rating also attests to its robust security. [[1]] MikeField 08:49, 17 January 2010 (CST)

Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) performs rigorous inspection of EHR's integrated functionality,interoperability, security and is intended to serve health care providers looking for maximum assurance that a product will meet their complex needs. These listed products have CCHIT Certification but have not been tested against the applicable proposed Federal standards in existence on the date of certification for certified EHR technology of its type under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA): 1) Cerner Millennium FirstNet 2007.19 (Expires April 22, 2011), 2) Cerner Millennium PowerChart 2007 (Expires January 22, 2011), 3) Cerner Millennium FirstNet 2007.19 (Expires April 22, 2011), and 4) Cerner Millennium PowerChart/PowerWorks EMR 2007.19 (Expires April 22, 2011). 4 [[2]] EarnValle, September 6, 2010, 9:15pm CST


References:

1. Cerner Corporation: Healthcare Information Technology. http://www.cerner.com

2. Cerner - Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerner_Corporation

Here is an article on Yahoo Finance about Cerner EHR.

3. Reference: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=cern

4. Reference: http://www.cchit.org/products/cchit