Healthcare provider MedStar Health and Cerner have announced an expanded partnership with a seven-year agreement that will streamline operations, help improve the quality of patient care and develop technologies that align with MedStar’s vision to be the trusted leader in caring for people and advancing health.
The new alignment will allow access to all Cerner solutions and services throughout MedStar’s 10 hospitals and 3,000 plus beds, as well as the ambulatory and post-acute network. Cerner will provide MedStar an expanded enterprise Electronic Health Record (EHR) that will provide clinicians seamless access to patient information across the continuum of care.
In addition, Cerner will provide an onsite, Maryland-based team to collaborate on the execution of MedStar’s IT goals.
MedStar and Cerner have been partners since 1999. As part of the new long-term strategic agreement, Cerner and MedStar will focus on optimising, extending and leveraging MedStar’s IT footprint, working collaboratively to integrate data and process in order to deliver the highest quality and most cost-effective healthcare possible. Further, Cerner and MedStar together will work on joint innovation and performance improvement initiatives.
Through the new alliance with Cerner, MedStar plans to further the work of the MedStar Institute for Innovation by aligning more closely around technology innovation.
MedStar cares for more than a half million patients each year across Maryland and the Washington, D.C., region in its hospitals, urgent care and ambulatory care facilities, and physician offices. As the largest healthcare provider in the region, MedStar’s 10 hospitals, the MedStar Institute for Innovation, MedStar Physician Partners, and its other programs and services are recognised regionally and nationally for excellence in medical care.
