The Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, a private, not-for-profit healthcare system serving the greater Philadelphia area, is poised to roll out new technology aimed at improving patient care.
The health system will implement healthcare information technology from Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner to create a unified electronic medical record for each of the more than 550,000 patients that visit Einstein hospitals and outpatient facilities each year.
Cerner Millennium software will make it possible for doctors and nurses to electronically document care in the patient's record, access research about medical best practices, automate hospital processes in multiple departments and connect medical devices to the EMR.
"Implementation of Cerner Millennium solutions will provide doctors and nurses throughout the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network with access to evidence-based knowledge that will help them provide better care to patients," said Barry Freedman, Einstein's president and CEO. "Our clinicians will be able to access up-to-date patient information and medical best practices at our hospitals and outpatient facilities."
The Cerner Millennium healthcare computing platform provides secure access to an individual's EMR at the point of care and organizes information to meet the specific needs of care providers, front- and back-office professionals and consumers.
"The goal of this collaborative project between Cerner and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network is to improve care for patients by using a proven, evidence-based system to facilitate communication and decrease potential sources of error," said Trace Devanny, Cerner's president.
