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Why Cerner EMR?

St. John Providence Health System has introduced an Electronic Medical Record system that has modernized the way patient care is provided and documented. Nationally, this system is known as Cerner, SJPHS refers to it as e-Care because it combines leading edge technology solutions and our unique brand of quality caring. Cerner is licensed by more than 9,000 facilities worldwide.

Cerner is a fully integrated EMR system that has all of the functionality needed to support practices of all sizes and specialties and is fully integrated with the hospitals, labs and radiology systems of St. John Providence Health System. Cerner EMR provides all the tools to enable you and your practice to redefine the way you deliver health care to your patients. SJHS has been tasked with assuring our patient's health care that is safe, effective, efficient, creates an exceptional experience and leaves no patient behind. e-Care provides all those tools to enable us to redefine the way we deliver healthcare.

Cerner's Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system is more than a way for your practice to go paperless. This next-generation technology is a means to save money, improve efficiency and enhance security. Using industry leading technology, Cerner's EMR will help your practice achieve your goal of delivering the best patient care possible, allowing you to spend more time with your patients and less time documenting, and manage front- and back-office functions necessary to improve the financial well-being of the practice and streamline workflow.

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Featured Advantages of Cerner:

• Access clinical content - All of your practice data is at your fingertips, whether you’re in the office, an exam room, at one of our hospitals, at home or on vacation. Providers can access medication lists, labs, test results and clinical decision support tools in an instant.
• Unification - The EMR is just one part of Cerner's Comprehensive Electronic Health Record Solution. All products were developed by one company and will function as one powerful system.
• One patient, one medical record across the health system.
• ARRA Meaningful Use - Cerner provides all of the features needed for qualifying practices to receive Meaningful Use reimbursement.
• Reporting Tools - Implementing Cerner's reporting solution can pave the way for your practice to create reports to measure provider and practice performance on meaningful adoption of EHR, population health trends and chronic disease/preventive care management.