Integrated Healthcare Management from IBM and Cerner

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Integrated healthcare management solutions for healthcare providers from IBM and Cerner help create greater collaboration and integration as well as better decision making through improved information sharing.

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IBM Sales and Distribution Solution Brief

Healthcare

IBM and Cerner: Integrated healthcare management solutions
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Optimize Cerner applications on IBM platforms to help ensure the highest possible performance Optimize both clinical and financial outcomes through end-to-end information management Achieve greater integration of clinical information and device data with patient records Enable better decision making through improved information sharing Choose from a broad spectrum of solutions that can address many requirements, from single-doctor practices to major healthcare institutions Leverage the partnership between IBM and Cerner to deploy effective, proven and validated healthcare management solutions, quickly and simply

Today’s healthcare landscape offers both great promise and significant challenges. The rapid and ongoing advancement of patient care technology and methods holds the potential for a quality of care that is unprecedented. At the same time, however, the need to rein in costs and improve efficiency has never been more urgent. Maintaining the highest possible quality of care in this environment requires a multifaceted approach based on greater transparency and best practice concepts such as team care. Better healthcare is not only about the next big scientific breakthrough. It’s about making smarter decisions, using tools like electronic health records, advanced medical devices and information networks that help clinicians, administrators and insurers work together. With this kind of integration, healthcare becomes more patient-centric and focused on outcomes, rather than process, procedure and record keeping. The key enabler of this new approach to healthcare management is a dynamic, flexible IT infrastructure, one that uses advanced healthcare management applications that address the entire organization from end to end. A truly effective solution needs to bring clinical data together with administrative information, streamlining the way healthcare works through more efficient processes backed by cost-effective, powerful technology. IBM and Cerner have come together to create integrated solutions that help hundreds of healthcare institutions around the world achieve these goals. Cerner delivers key functionality through a broad spectrum of solutions that serve a range of healthcare providers—from individual physicians to the largest organizations. IBM contributes key dynamic infrastructure components, from efficient storage and servers with industry-leading virtualization technology that helps reduce server sprawl while improving utilization, to essential middleware that forms the cornerstone of efficient service-oriented architectures (SOAs), to expertise in business transformation backed by decades of experience and deep industry insight.











IBM Sales and Distribution Solution Brief

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About Cerner

integrated into a comprehensive clinical and administrative information management solution. This diversity gives the flexible Millennium platform broad and deep functionality for a range of healthcare professionals, from individual caregivers to entire hospitals. Cerner Millennium solution capabilities include, but are not limited to:


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.















Clinical and document imaging Community health Acute care electronic health records Emergency department management Device management Patient accounting Radiology Workforce management

Cerner PowerWorks – Built for private practices and smaller healthcare organizations, PowerWorks gives physicians what they need to run their offices efficiently and profitably. Solution areas include:


Cerner: A leading healthcare information technology provider
Cerner, a premier IBM Business Partner, is a major force in healthcare information management, with more than 8,500 facilities that use Cerner solutions. With a dedicated industry focus, Cerner offers powerful solutions that break down traditional barriers between business and clinical operations, helping to eliminate silos of information and make more efficient and effective patient care a core part of the business. The Cerner portfolio includes three key solution families: Cerner Millennium®, PowerWorks® for secure data hosting, and the CareAware® medical device connectivity architecture. These offerings optimize both clinical and financial outcomes by facilitating greater information sharing and streamlining processes. Cerner Millennium, a person-centric solution framework, continues to advance the digitization of individual electronic medical records to meet the needs of care providers, support professionals and healthcare consumers. Millennium offers a rich set of focused application modules that can be seamlessly







Clinical: Electronic medical records and prescription management Business: Comprehensive front- and back-office management, specialty management, surgery, electronic data interchange, reporting Services and Consulting: Assistance with business operations, revenue management and vendor management 24x7x365 data support

Cerner CareAware – With intelligent medical devices becoming increasingly important in healthcare, it is essential to capture and leverage the flood of data they produce. 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. CareAware:






Connects people to medical devices Connects devices to clinician workflow Connects workflow to improved patient outcomes

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IBM Sales and Distribution Solution Brief

Healthcare

IBM dynamic infrastructure solutions: Industry-leading IT
IBM has long been a leader in healthcare industry solutions, finding new ways to apply technology to patient care. For example, today IBM researchers are helping physicians make better use of medical device data to spot infections before they become evident, greatly improving the outlook for highrisk patients. At the same time, IBM understands that better, smarter healthcare depends on the entire organization—both the clinical side and the business side—working together, and that takes an IT platform which can be relied upon. Deriving the maximum benefit from Cerner solutions requires underlying technology that has the reliability, availability, scalability and performance needed for mission-critical operations. That’s what IBM technology leadership offers. IBM strives to remain at the forefront of IT innovation, while creating systems with strong support and longevity for investment protection. Clients are assured that the technology in use today is the best and most advanced available, with a clear roadmap for future development. The IBM opensystems approach means that its infrastructure solutions can evolve to keep up with changing business and IT requirements, free of proprietary technological dead ends. IBM best-of-breed systems and software are designed to meet the strategic client goals, including:




Investment protection – Long-term support from an established industry leader, combined with open, scalable and upgradeable systems, help reduce risk.

An effective IT solution takes more than good hardware and software. IBM has deep industry expertise, business knowledge and decades of experience helping clients achieve their business and technology goals rapidly and efficiently. Expert IBM consultants can assist with solution design as well as implementation, and provide guidance on optimizing business processes to make the most of the combined IBM and Cerner solution. IBM also offers highly attractive financial services that make deploying the solution much easier, with competitive rates and flexible services such as graduated payments that are directly tied to the realization of tangible business benefits.

Enhanced value from two industry leaders
IBM and Cerner have built a relationship that enables them to work together to develop stronger solutions that draw on the strengths of both for the benefit of their clients. For example, experts from IBM and Cerner collaborate at the Systems Integration Test Lab in Beaverton, Oregon to optimize Cerner applications on IBM platforms and help ensure the highest possible performance. IBM also has extensive hands-on experience with Cerner implementations. Today, many Cerner deployments run on IBM computing platforms, making IBM the technology partner of choice. No matter what the technology need or where the project may be, the IBM and Cerner team makes doing business simple. Both companies have a global presence, which gives international clients the peace of mind that everywhere Cerner is, IBM also operates. The hand-in-hand relationship and comprehensive, complementary offerings of IBM and Cerner also eliminates the need to manage complex multiplevendor relationships. The result: healthcare professionals are free to devote their attention and resources to what matters most—the welfare of their patients.





Flexibility – IBM virtualization technology helps optimize the infrastructure, making it possible to add new workloads without adding new servers, or shift resources as needed. Industry-leading software components such as IBM WebSphere® help to integrate diverse systems and make functionality available across the organization. Manageability – Robust IBM Tivoli® management software combined with built-in system features helps keep IBM infrastructures up and running without the need for heavy IT staff involvement. Low cost of ownership – Advanced systems, such as the new IBM POWER7™, offer energy efficiency, the ability to optimize utilization and standardized, easy-to-scale hardware that can lower both capital and operational costs.

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Find out more
To learn more about how Cerner and IBM can help you provide better, more efficient healthcare, contact your IBM or Cerner representative. Visit us on the Web at:
ibm.com/healthcare
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Cerner, the Cerner logo, CareAware, Cerner Millennium, PowerWorks are registered trademarks owned by Cerner Corporation and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and certain other countries throughout the world. Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others

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