U.S. Government Selects Cerner Corp. Laboratory Technology for Clinical Military Facilities Around the World; Healthcare IT Leader to Manage Laboratory Data of Nine Million Servicemen and Women
The U.S. Department of Defense and Cerner Corp. (Nasdaq:CERN) announce today a 10-year agreement to utilize Cerner Millennium(R) PathNet(R) laboratory information system in the Military Health System’s more than 100 hospitals and 400 clinics in the United States and around the world.
“The Department of Defense increasingly must operate as a single healthcare system,” said Commander Joseph Granado. “Wounded servicemen and women are treated and stabilized quickly in war zones, but they must be transported to other hospitals in a matter of hours or days for advanced care. Soldiers’ medical information must be accessible, yet secure, from anywhere in the global Military Health System so clinicians can readily know how best to treat them. Cerner’s proven ability to provide technology for massive-scale health systems was crucial to the Department of Defense’s decision to select the company as its laboratory technology partner.”
Since 1995, the Department of Defense has trusted Cerner’s CoPath(TM) anatomic pathology solution in global medical laboratories. The new agreement will expand the relationship to the clinical laboratory, employing the much broader and unified Cerner Millennium architecture throughout the Military Health System’s clinical and anatomic laboratories that manage the data of nine million active-duty servicemen and women, their families and retired service people.
“Like the rest of the healthcare industry, our military’s care system is in the process of modernizing and expanding its informatics infrastructure. Cerner’s proven laboratory solution is a core component of that objective,” said J.P. Fingado, Cerner vice president and general manager. “Cerner is extremely proud to be selected by the Department of Defense, and to be a part of this nation’s defense system. It is our distinct honor to be able to provide technology that helps ensure the safety of, and enable improved healthcare for, this nation’s servicemen and women, including the 13 Cerner associates who are military reservists, called up during Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
The Department of Defense will install a broad set of Cerner PathNet laboratory solutions during the three-phase implementation program. The PathNet solution streamlines complex workflows, helps eliminate errors and improves the quality and performance of laboratories. Additionally, the government will employ Human Leukocyte Antigen testing and robotic interfaces in its more advanced clinical laboratory settings. The 10-year commitment will extend the system to all military clinical laboratories, including medical facilities in war theaters and the naval fleet.
Cerner Corp. is taking the paper chart out of healthcare, eliminating error, variance and waste in the care process. With more than 1,500 clients worldwide, Cerner is the leading supplier of healthcare information technology. The following are trademarks of Cerner: Cerner, Cerner Millennium, CoPath, PathNet, Cerner’s logo, Nasdaq: CERN, www.cerner.com .
