Cerner Corporation (Nasdaq:CERN) announced a strategic partnership
with Fort HealthCare, an integrated hospital and health system in
Fort Atkinson, Wis., to create a connected health community. Fort
HealthCare will work with Cerner to improve the quality of care and
make care processes more efficient for more than 120,000 residents
in the organization's service area through the use of
Cerner
Millennium® solutions. By connecting physician
offices, clinics, employers and consumers in the community with the
hospital, Fort HealthCare can provide an integrated healthcare
system that is tailored to the needs of its communities.
The hospital is an acute and sub-acute care facility and will
use Cerner® solutions to automate processes for
ambulatory surgery and specialty clinics, the birthing center,
cardiac rehabilitation and emergency services, including urgent
care. Fort HealthCare will implement more than 20 Cerner
solutions in addition to a wellness and chronic condition
management program that will reduce the costs of treating
conditions and improve health outcomes.
"Our alignment with Cerner will not only accelerate our path to
achieving 'meaningful use' but will ultimately allow us to achieve
our quality objectives," said Michael Wallace, Fort HealthCare
president and CEO. "This enhanced collaboration will help us
achieve strategic initiatives while positioning us as a leader in
delivering patient-focused quality care that encourages wellness
management as opposed to episodic care."
Fort HealthCare will use the unified Cerner Millennium
architecture to advance the digitization of individual electronic
health records (EHRs) to meet the needs of care providers, support
professionals and healthcare consumers. This new system will
improve the patient experience by providing them access to their
health information and will benefit providers by supplying them
with a more complete picture of patient information. This access to
relevant, integrated clinical information allows providers to
communicate instantly with the rest of the patient's care team and
enables them to make the best care decisions possible.
Additionally, Fort HealthCare will further enhance the patient
experience through services such as e-consultations and condition
management.
"In fact," said Wallace, "this is one of the most strategic
initiatives Fort HealthCare has undertaken. The Cerner
system will provide us with clinical and operational information
we've never had. Better information will help us to deliver
better care and help us achieve our vision to be the best
independent community health system."
In addition to the clinical and revenue cycle solutions, Fort
HealthCare will also leverage Cerner's new IT management services.
In 2009, Cerner launched a new business unit, called Cerner
ITWorksSM to create a deeper, strategic alignment
with its client partners. Cerner ITWorks is a service Cerner
offers to manage Cerner and non-Cerner solutions within a
client organization. By taking the back-end maintenance and upgrade
burdens off of the client IT teams, not only does the client
benefit financially, but it allows the IT teams to focus solely on
provider support in a real healthcare setting rather than
"backstage."
Fort HealthCare will utilize the Cerner ITWorks service
to achieve the best clinical and business ROI from technology
investments and to leverage technology as a strategic asset to
drive and achieve business and clinical goals.
"Cerner ITWorks servicesallow us to take on a bigger role
in the Fort HealthCare IT department to help them drive efficiency,
performance and quality, while also creating a closer strategic
alignment," said Trace Devanny, Cerner president. "Our model for
managing IT departments allows for better value through improved
quality, safety and efficiency. This partnership will allow Fort
HealthCare to maximize their use of information technology and
leverage Cerner's 30 years of technical and clinical
experience."
Cerner Millennium solutions automate hospital clinical,
financial and management processes. The Cerner Millennium
healthcare computing platform provides secure access to an
individual's EHR at the point of care and organizes information to
meet the specific needs of care providers, front- and back-office
professionals and consumers.
About Fort HealthCare
Fort HealthCare is an integrated hospital and health system that
attracts patients throughout southeastern Wisconsin. Fort Memorial
Hospital is a modern, fully accredited, acute and sub-acute care
facility with 110 licensed beds. More than 100 physicians are on
staff. Fort Medical Group, a subsidiary of Fort HealthCare,
currently employs more than 50 physicians, nurse practitioners, and
other healthcare providers. Fort Medical Group clinics
offering primary and specialty surgical care are located in Fort
Atkinson, Cambridge, Edgerton, Elkhorn, Johnson Creek, Jefferson,
Lake Mills, Stoughton and Whitewater. Other services offered by
Fort HealthCare include occupational medicine, rehabilitation and
sports medicine, wound care, urgent care, home health, a preferred
provider network for employers known as FortCare, and
more. Fort HealthCare is a partner in the UW Cancer Center
Johnson Creek. Most major health insurance products are
accepted. For more information, please go to
www.FortHealthCare.com.
About Cerner
Cerner is transforming healthcare by eliminating error, variance
and waste for healthcare providers and consumers around the world.
Cerner® solutions optimize processes for healthcare
organizations ranging in size from single-doctor practices, to
health systems, to entire countries, for the pharmaceutical and
medical device industries, and for the healthcare commerce system.
These solutions are licensed by more than 8,500 facilities around
the world, including approximately 2,300 hospitals; 3,400 physician
practices covering more than 30,000 physicians; 600 ambulatory
facilities, such as laboratories, ambulatory centers, cardiac
facilities, radiology clinics and surgery centers; 700 home-health
facilities; and 1,500 retail pharmacies. The trademarks, service
marks and logos (collectively, the "Marks") set forth herein are
registered and unregistered trademarks and/or service marks owned
by Cerner Corporation and/or its subsidiaries in the United States
and certain other countries throughout the world. (Nasdaq:CERN).
For more information about Cerner, please visit our Web site at
www.cerner.com.
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CONTACT: Cerner Corporation
Media Contact:
Kelly Johnson
(816) 777-8466
kelly.johnson@cerner.com
Investors Contact:
Allan Kells
(816) 201-2445
akells@cerner.com
Fort HealthCare
Media Contact:
James Shulkin
(920) 568-5472
james.shulkin@forthc.com
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