IBM Sales and Distribution
Solution Brief
Highlights
● Optimize Cerner applications on
IBM platforms to help ensure the
highest possible performance
● Optimize both clinical and financial out-
comes through end-to-end information
management
● Achieve greater integration of clinical
information and device data with
patient records
● Enable better decision making through
improved information sharing
● Choose from a broad spectrum of solu-
tions that can address many require-
ments, from single-doctor practices to
major healthcare institutions
● Leverage the partnership between
IBM and Cerner to deploy effective,
proven and validated healthcare man-
agement solutions, quickly and simply
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IBM and Cerner:
Integrated healthcare
management solutions
Today’s healthcare landscape offers both great promise and significant
challenges. The rapid and ongoing advancement of patient care tech-
nology and methods holds the potential for a quality of care that is
unprecedented. At the same time, however, the need to rein in costs
and improve efficiency has never been more urgent.
Maintaining the highest possible quality of care in this environment
requires a multifaceted approach based on greater transparency and
best practice concepts such as team care. Better healthcare is not only
about the next big scientific breakthrough. It’s about making smarter
decisions, using tools like electronic health records, advanced medical
devices and information networks that help clinicians, administrators
and insurers work together. With this kind of integration, healthcare
becomes more patient-centric and focused on outcomes, rather than
process, procedure and record keeping.
The key enabler of this new approach to healthcare management is a
dynamic, flexible IT infrastructure, one that uses advanced healthcare
management applications that address the entire organization from
end to end. A truly effective solution needs to bring clinical data
together with administrative information, streamlining the way health-
care works through more efficient processes backed by cost-effective,
powerful technology.
IBM and Cerner have come together to create integrated solutions that
help hundreds of healthcare institutions around the world achieve
these goals. Cerner delivers key functionality through a broad spec-
trum of solutions that serve a range of healthcare providers—from
individual physicians to the largest organizations. IBM contributes key
dynamic infrastructure components, from efficient storage and servers
with industry-leading virtualization technology that helps reduce server
sprawl while improving utilization, to essential middleware that forms
the cornerstone of efficient service-oriented architectures (SOAs), to
expertise in business transformation backed by decades of experience
and deep industry insight.
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Solution Brief
About Cerner
Cerner is transforming healthcare by eliminating error, variance
and waste for healthcare providers and consumers around the
world. Cerner solutions optimize processes for healthcare organ-
izations ranging in size from single-doctor practices, to health
systems, to entire countries, for the pharmaceutical and medical
device industries, and for the healthcare commerce system.
These solutions are licensed by more than 8,500 facilities around
the world, including approximately 2,300 hospitals; 3,400 physi-
cian practices covering more than 30,000 physicians; 600 ambu-
latory facilities, such as laboratories, ambulatory centers, cardiac
facilities, radiology clinics and surgery centers; 700 home-health
facilities; and 1,500 retail pharmacies.
Cerner: A leading healthcare information
technology provider
Cerner, a premier IBM Business Partner, is a major force
in healthcare information management, with more than
8,500 facilities that use Cerner solutions. With a dedicated
industry focus, Cerner offers powerful solutions that break
down traditional barriers between business and clinical opera-
tions, helping to eliminate silos of information and make
more efficient and effective patient care a core part of the
business.
The Cerner portfolio includes three key solution families:
Cerner Millennium®, PowerWorks® for secure data hosting,
and the CareAware® medical device connectivity architec-
ture. These offerings optimize both clinical and financial out-
comes by facilitating greater information sharing and
streamlining processes.
Cerner Millennium, a person-centric solution framework,
continues to advance the digitization of individual electronic
medical records to meet the needs of care providers, support
professionals and healthcare consumers. Millennium offers a
rich set of focused application modules that can be seamlessly
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integrated into a comprehensive clinical and administrative
information management solution. This diversity gives the
flexible Millennium platform broad and deep functionality for
a range of healthcare professionals, from individual caregivers
to entire hospitals. Cerner Millennium solution capabilities
include, but are not limited to:
● Clinical and document imaging
● Community health
● Acute care electronic health records
● Emergency department management
● Device management
● Patient accounting
● Radiology
● Workforce management
Cerner PowerWorks – Built for private practices and smaller
healthcare organizations, PowerWorks gives physicians what
they need to run their offices efficiently and profitably.
Solution areas include:
● Clinical: Electronic medical records and prescription
management
● Business: Comprehensive front- and back-office manage-
ment, specialty management, surgery, electronic data inter-
change, reporting
● Services and Consulting: Assistance with business opera-
tions, revenue management and vendor management
● 24x7x365 data support
Cerner CareAware – With intelligent medical devices
becoming increasingly important in healthcare, it is essential
to capture and leverage the flood of data they produce. The
CareAware architecture offers a scalable, enterprise approach
to device connectivity. This approach delivers key benefits
including improved workflow, enhanced safety and better
management of devices across an organization.
CareAware:
● Connects people to medical devices
● Connects devices to clinician workflow
● Connects workflow to improved patient outcomes
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Solution Brief
IBM dynamic infrastructure solutions:
Industry-leading IT
IBM has long been a leader in healthcare industry solutions,
finding new ways to apply technology to patient care. For
example, today IBM researchers are helping physicians make
better use of medical device data to spot infections before
they become evident, greatly improving the outlook for high-
risk patients.
At the same time, IBM understands that better, smarter
healthcare depends on the entire organization—both the
clinical side and the business side—working together, and
that takes an IT platform which can be relied upon. Deriving
the maximum benefit from Cerner solutions requires under-
lying technology that has the reliability, availability, scalability
and performance needed for mission-critical operations.
That’s what IBM technology leadership offers.
IBM strives to remain at the forefront of IT innovation,
while creating systems with strong support and longevity for
investment protection. Clients are assured that the technol-
ogy in use today is the best and most advanced available, with
a clear roadmap for future development. The IBM open-
systems approach means that its infrastructure solutions can
evolve to keep up with changing business and IT require-
ments, free of proprietary technological dead ends.
IBM best-of-breed systems and software are designed to meet
the strategic client goals, including:
● Flexibility – IBM virtualization technology helps optimize
the infrastructure, making it possible to add new workloads
without adding new servers, or shift resources as needed.
Industry-leading software components such as
IBM WebSphere® help to integrate diverse systems and
make functionality available across the organization.
● Manageability – Robust IBM Tivoli® management soft-
ware combined with built-in system features helps keep
IBM infrastructures up and running without the need for
heavy IT staff involvement.
● Low cost of ownership – Advanced systems, such as the
new IBM POWER7™, offer energy efficiency, the ability
to optimize utilization and standardized, easy-to-scale hard-
ware that can lower both capital and operational costs.
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● Investment protection – Long-term support from an estab-
lished industry leader, combined with open, scalable and
upgradeable systems, help reduce risk.
An effective IT solution takes more than good hardware and
software. IBM has deep industry expertise, business knowl-
edge and decades of experience helping clients achieve their
business and technology goals rapidly and efficiently. Expert
IBM consultants can assist with solution design as well as
implementation, and provide guidance on optimizing busi-
ness processes to make the most of the combined IBM and
Cerner solution. IBM also offers highly attractive financial
services that make deploying the solution much easier, with
competitive rates and flexible services such as graduated
payments that are directly tied to the realization of tangible
business benefits.
Enhanced value from two industry
leaders
IBM and Cerner have built a relationship that enables them
to work together to develop stronger solutions that draw on
the strengths of both for the benefit of their clients. For
example, experts from IBM and Cerner collaborate at the
Systems Integration Test Lab in Beaverton, Oregon to opti-
mize Cerner applications on IBM platforms and help ensure
the highest possible performance. IBM also has extensive
hands-on experience with Cerner implementations. Today,
many Cerner deployments run on IBM computing platforms,
making IBM the technology partner of choice.
No matter what the technology need or where the project
may be, the IBM and Cerner team makes doing business
simple. Both companies have a global presence, which gives
international clients the peace of mind that everywhere
Cerner is, IBM also operates. The hand-in-hand relationship
and comprehensive, complementary offerings of IBM and
Cerner also eliminates the need to manage complex multiple-
vendor relationships. The result: healthcare professionals are
free to devote their attention and resources to what matters
most—the welfare of their patients.
Find out more
To learn more about how Cerner and IBM can help you pro-
vide better, more efficient healthcare, contact your IBM or
Cerner representative.

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