Dive Brief: Cerner reported revenue of $ 1.41 billion in the first quarter of 2020, up 2% year-over-year. The company missed Wall Street and internal expectations due to lower-than-expected bookings and reimbursed travel amid the pandemic. Bookings of almost $ 1.1 billion were at the low end of the Kansas City, Missouri-based EHR vendor’s guidance… Read More »
As the Department of Defense begins to deploy its new Cerner electronic health record system over the next five years, the military is leveraging important lessons learned from the EHR’s initial deployment. The EHR system—called MHS GENESIS—is on track for full deployment worldwide by the end of 2023. However, the initial rollout of the Cerner… Read More »
Health IT vendor Cerner is working with Claritas Genomis to develop tools and connectivity to integrate genomic testing into healthcare practice. The initiative to advance personalized medicine aims to better integrate results from next generation sequencing (NGS) diagnostic testing into delivering care to patients. The companies say they intend to develop a rapid, scalable laboratory… Read More »
A big appointment scheduling contract between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Epic that’s been up in the air in recent years may soon be resolved – and may go instead to rival Cerner, which is overseeing the VA’s larger electronic health record modernization project. WHY IT MATTERSThe Medical Appointment Scheduling System, based on… Read More »