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Health care is too important to stay the same
Cerner is transforming health care by eliminating error, variance and waste for health care providers and consumers around the world. Our solutions optimize processes for health care organizations ranging from single-doctor practices to entire countries. Our solutions are licensed by more than 9,000 facilities worldwide.
Cerner Corporation
Company Overview
Cerner specializes in health care information technology (HCIT) with proven digital solutions that streamline administration processes, reduce costs and enhance patient safety from inpatient to outpatient facilities.
Cerner solutions enable physicians, nurses, and other authorized users to share data across entire organizations. Our Clinical Summary displays up-to-date patient information in real time, complete with decision-support tools for physicians and nurses. Simple prompts allow swift and accurate ordering, documentation, and billing.
We invite you to join us in our quest to make health care become all it should be. Since our company began in 1979, we have been committed to transformational change in the vital task of keeping people well. Now more than ever, our focus is on developing the innovations that will help improve the entire health care system. Ultimately, as our CEO Neal Patterson has said, “health care is personal.” Because in the end, nothing matters more than our health and our families.
HQ Location: Cerner Corporation, 2800 Rockcreek Parkway, Kansas City, MO 64117-1121
Website: www.cerner.com
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Expert Profiles
Dr. David McCallie, Vice President of Medical Informatics
Dr. David McCallie is Vice President for Medical Informatics at Cerner Corporation. He is responsible for a research and development team focused on innovations at the intersection of computer science and clinical medicine.
His current work targets applications of semantic content extracted from the clinical record using natural language parsing and machine-learning techniques. In addition to his work at Cerner, he is working with a broad group of collaborators to define Direct, a simplified approach to secure clinical messaging, which will become a part of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN.) Dr. McCallie is a member of the Office of the National Coordinator’s HIT Standards Committee, where he also serves on the Privacy and Security “Tiger Team” and various other workgroups.
Previous projects led by Dr. McCallie include the design of Cerner’s first ePrescribing system and of Cerner’s Community Health Record, an early implementation of a statewide clinical record used for health information exchange. Dr. McCallie has participated actively in the definition and promotion of personally-controlled health records, known also as Health Record Banks.
Dr. McCallie joined Cerner in 1991. He was the chief architect for Open Clinical Foundation, Cerner’s clinical data repository, which sits at the center of Cerner’s EHR. He was also responsible for the development of Cerner’s UMLS-derived clinical nomenclature system and for the PowerNote structured clinical documentation tool, now in widespread use at Cerner clients.
Prior to joining Cerner, Dr. McCallie served as Director of Research Computing at Children’s Hospital in Boston, and he was an Instructor in Neurology at Children’s Hospital and at Harvard Medical School. His research background involved the use of three-dimensional models of brain electrical activity to improve the treatment of epilepsy. At Duke University, Dr. McCallie earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Jigar Patel Director, Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Jigar Patel is a physician executive with Cerner Corporation. He works with current and prospective clients to help them understand how Cerner solutions and services can positively impact their work.
Patel joined Cerner in January 2007. Among his accomplishments since that time, he was named 2007 Healthcare Executive Rookie of the Year; 2008 Clinical Associate of the Year; and achieved membership into the Millennium Club in 2008.
Prior to joining Cerner, Patel was an assistant professor of pathology at the University of Kansas Medical Center and associate medical director of the Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City.
In 2007, Patel received the Residents Award of Excellence from the University of Kansas pathology residents. In 2004, he received the Admiral Eugene B. Fluckey Award for excellence in teaching medical students at the Case Western Reserve University.
Patel received his bachelor’s degree and medical degree from Case Western Reserve University. He completed internship in general surgery at University Hospitals of Cleveland, and a residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at University Hospitals of Cleveland. He also completed a fellowship with Cleveland Citywide Transfusion Medicine.
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