Cerner to Celebrate Success With Clients, Industry Leaders at HIMSS12

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cerner CERN, along with several clients, will highlight achievements with health care information technology in the Cerner booth (476) at the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition, Feb. 20-24, at the Venetian Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas.

Dr. Wendy Sue Swanson, blogger, mother and pediatrician, will be in the Cerner booth on Feb. 23, starting at 10 a.m. Swanson will discuss how using innovative technologies and social media allows providers to connect with their patients in new ways.

Throughout the conference, there will be numerous opportunities to speak with Cerner clients and physician experts. Those sharing their accomplishments in the Cerner booth are:

• Mike Wallace, president and chief executive officer of Fort HealthCare, an integrated hospital and health system which provides quality health care to the residents of an eight-community area, and operates the only hospital in Jefferson County, Wis., will discuss strategic alignments with Cerner, and building healthy communities. – Feb. 21 at 3 p.m.
• Lisa Gulker, director of clinical transformation at Detroit Medical Center (DMC), the leading academically integrated system in metropolitan Detroit and the largest health care provider in southeast Michigan, will discuss smart unit implementation and VitalsLink. – Feb 21 at 4 p.m.
• Patricia Natale, chief nursing officer at DMC, will discuss core quality data, user adoption, abstractor and eSubmission projects – Feb. 22 at 10 a.m.
• Dr. David McCallie, vice president of medical informatics at Cerner and Liz Johnson, vice president of applied clinical informatics at Tenet Healthcare, one of the largest investor-owned health care delivery systems in the nation, will discuss Stage 2 of Meaningful Use.– Feb. 22 at noon.
• Dr. Christopher Tashjian, President at River Falls Medical Clinic, which encompasses three clinics staffed by dedicated medical professionals with one mission: To provide high quality health care to western Wisconsin communities, will discuss the ambulatory Meaningful Use attestation experience. – Feb. 22 at 3 p.m.
• Dr. Jeffrey Schaider, emergency medicine at Cook County Health and Hospital System, a system which oversees a comprehensive, integrated system of health care throughout Chicago and suburban Cook County, will discuss physician usability and the emergency department. – Feb. 22 at 5 p.m.
• Ed Martinez, senior vice president and chief information officer at Miami Children's Hospital, a world leader in pediatric health care and home to Florida's only free-standing pediatric trauma center, will discuss the Cerner Vision. – Feb. 23 at noon.
• Jeff Tindle, chief executive officer at Carroll County Memorial Hospital, a critical access hospital in north central Missouri that has achieved HIMSS Stage 6 and attested for Meaningful Use, will discuss CommunityWorks™. – Feb. 23 at 3 p.m.
• Dr. Sajjad Yacoob, chief medical information officer at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, the first and largest pediatric hospital in Southern California, will discuss transforming health care and Meaningful Use. – Feb. 23 at 5 p.m.

Outside of the booth, Cerner's clients will also be sharing their experiences on a variety of topics throughout HIMSS12. These clients are featured speakers in numerous education sessions, including: the Interoperability Showcase and the ICD-10 Knowledge Center will also feature Cerner^® solutions.

To schedule an interview with Cerner or Cerner clients contact Dan Edgington.

About Cerner

Cerner is contributing to the systemic change of health and care delivery. For more than 30 years Cerner has been executing its vision to make health care safer and more efficient. We started with the foundation of digitizing paper processes and now offer the most comprehensive array of information software, professional services, medical device integration, remote hosting and employer health and wellness services. Cerner systems are used by everyone from individual consumers, to single-doctor practices, hospitals, employers and entire countries. Taking what we've learned over more than three decades, Cerner is building on the knowledge that is in the system to support evidence-based clinical decisions, prevent medical errors and empower patients in their care.

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