Citation
(2002), "A healthy business", Work Study, Vol. 51 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ws.2002.07951bab.011
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited
A healthy business
A healthy business
IBM and Cerner Corp. have formed a global strategic alliance to help create e-hospitals that make better use of information technology to improve patient care and provide faster medical treatment with fewer errors. "IBM and Cerner are helping hospitals break the spiral of escalating cost, preventable medical errors and inefficient operations," said Russell Ricci, MD and general manager, IBM Global Healthcare. "This alliance will create the only end-to-end solution built on a common architecture. This will enable health-care delivery in the US and other countries to become more efficient and improve the quality and speed of consumer health care." Under the agreement, Cerner medical applications will be fully optimised and integrated with the IBM server, storage and infrastructure software. This will enable more information to be given to clinicians faster and with more accuracy. Such an end-to-end solution will also help drive down the complexity, initial cost and daily operating expenses – which are key issues for health-care organisations. With the IBM/Cerner solutions, health-care institutions will no longer have to cobble together piece parts from different hardware and software suppliers to try and automate their operations. The integrated Cerner and IBM offerings also will help the healthcare industry minimise medical errors, which are estimated to cause thousands of patient deaths or injuries each year. For example, electronic-based medical records will be available any time to any appropriate hospital department, unlike paper-based records that may be unavailable, lost or misread. Globally, more than 1,500 hospitals and other health-care providers already use Cerner software to collect, disseminate and manage patient data across the continuum of care to pharmacies, insurance companies and even to the home, with the highest level of security and privacy. To learn more please visit http://www.ibm.com/solutions/healthcare