Cerner provides academic health centers with the mission-critical solutions they need to educate the next generation of clinicians, to provide the latest advances in patient care, to drive discovery of sophisticated new treatments, and to connect with local, regional and global communities. With Cerner solutions for academic health centers, your organization can:

• Enhance the education of students 
  • Accelerate proficiency and provide hands-on experience in the classroom  
  • Combine live patient data with alerts and evidence-based knowledge so students learn in clinical settings  
• Improve coordination, communication and collaboration of interdisciplinary teams 
  • Ensure a single source of truth regardless of role, venue or condition  
  • Support full scope of practice for each clinician  
  • Optimize hand offs  
  • Meet quality and regulatory requirements as a natural by-product of documentation  
• Help drive research and discovery 
  • Provide data integration, visualization and mining technologies to strengthen translational science  
  • Automate clinical trial processes, facilitating involvement of clinicians and patients  
• Connect academic centers with their communities 
  • Securely connect patients and clinicians to enable options for improved disease management  
  • Bridge the gap between academic physicians and referring clinicians  

For more information regarding our solutions for academic clients:

• Advancing Academic Health Centers (pdf) 
• Preparing future health professionals for HIT (pdf) 

These case studies offer a glimpse of the significant benefits just a few of our academic medical center and teaching hospital clients have derived from the use of Cerner Millennium solutions:

• Aurora Health Care - EMR promotes coordinated care (pdf) 
• LifeBridge Health - A single record across a continuum of care (pdf) 
• New York Methodist - Hospital builds value with HIT (pdf) 
• Penn State Hershey - CPOE plays critical role in safety initiative (pdf) 
• St. James Hospital, Dublin - Transforming patient care with technology (pdf) 
• University of Illinois at Chicago - Partnership benefits academic medical center (pdf) 
• University of New Mexico - HIT drives quality improvement, cost savings (pdf) 

Press releases:

• Cerner HIT implemented in Abu Dhabi (May 2008)  
• Qatar University selects Cerner Academic Education Solution (April 2008)  
• University of New Mexico & Cerner to evaluate dry-powder inhaler technology (March 2008)  
• Cerner recognized by KLAS as an industry leader in CPOE & clinical application hosting (March 2008)  
• NCCN & Cerner announce collaboration to provide care guidelines for cancer patients (March 2008)  
• Hill-Rom & Cerner partner to unify hospital care delivery (February 2008)  
• Medstar Health chooses Cerner solutions to drive superior clinical outcomes (January 2008)  
• Spectrum Health, Cerner & Microsoft collaborate to implement technologies that empower patients (January 2008)  
• Archived news releases