Healthcare IT Leader Cerner Announces Entry into Healthcare Device Market; Cerner CareAware Unites Healthcare Device Availability and Connectivity to Increase Patient Safety

"For more than a quarter century, Cerner has been driving theautomation of healthcare through its industry-leading informationtechnology solutions," said Neal Patterson, Cerner chairman and chiefexecutive officer. "Today, Cerner is taking the next step to providingour clients with end-to-end solutions that deliver a greater level ofpatient safety and increase organizational efficiency."

The first line of connected devices, to be called CareAware(TM),will offer medical products, software and connectivity solutions thatwill complement and enhance the company's ongoing commitment toeliminating errors and improving effectiveness in healthcare. TheCareAware devices will work seamlessly with Cerner Millennium(R), thecompany's unified healthcare IT architecture, to provide clinicians aunique approach to managing patients' information and treatments,increasing collaboration among departments and eliminating duplicationand fragmentation.

Recent studies show the evident need for transferable data betweena patient's electronic medical record and clinical treatment.According to the Institute of Medicine, preventable medication errorsresult in more than 7,000 deaths annually in hospitals, withmedication errors occurring in 20 percent of doses administered. Inaddition to the loss in human life, errors result in significantfinancial losses for healthcare organizations. A study in the Journalof the American Pharmacy Association noted that the annual cost ofdrug-related morbidity and mortality is $177 billion.

Cerner's first CareAware offering debuted this week during theHealthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)conference in San Diego. The CareAware RxStation(TM) collection ofdevices is designed to revolutionize the medication process. Automateddispensing machines and their supporting systems will link with theCerner Millennium software, connecting information from a patient'smedical history directly with the clinicians and the pharmacy.

The first implementation of the CareAware RxStation devices willbegin this summer at Sun Health, a non-profit community healthcarenetwork offering acute, long-term, residential and home-deliveredhealthcare and related services to people of all ages in the westernsuburbs of Phoenix.

In addition, Cerner is working together with several devicemanufacturers to develop integrated clinical data delivery mechanisms,allowing interoperability between Cerner Millennium technology andhealthcare providers' hardware. For example, Welch Allyn, a leadingmanufacturer of frontline medical devices and solutions, and Cernerintend to work with select client sites to study workflow efficienciesand innovative methods for turning patient data into actionablehealthcare information.

Cerner Corp. is taking the paper chart out of healthcare,eliminating error, variance and waste in the care process. With morethan 1,500 clients worldwide, Cerner is the leading supplier ofhealthcare information technology. The following are trademarks ofCerner: Cerner Millennium, CareAware, RxStation. NASDAQ: CERN.www.cerner.com.

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