Cerner’s Millennium named best EPR system

Their Millennium architecture won top prize in the Electronic Health Record Systems for Hospitals prize. The same architecture underpins their e-booking contract and had been a major part of all their unsuccessful LSP bids.

In the UK Cerner’s Millenium system failed to be selected for any of the five clusters for which Local Service Provider (LSP) contracts which were awarded by the National Programme for IT at the end of 2003 and beginning of 2004.  The only contract that Cerner won under NPfIT was to deliver the new national e-booking system, worth £64m.

Dr Jeff Rose, Cerner’s chief medical officer and vice president, said that the award “indicates that the physician community is confirming Cerner’s in-depth functionality and value."

Dr Rose added: “Today’s healthcare organizations demand proven solutions. Only Cerner Millennium, with its unified, person-centric architecture, and nearly 3,000 applications live, is delivering that today."

The original awards shortlist was drawn up by a panel of health professionals representing the Medical Records Institute, and each product was demonstrated at the conference in front of an audience.

The Medical Records Institute, who runs the awards, is a private Boston-based conference and publishing firm that aims to “promote and enhance the journey towards electronic health records, e-health, mobile health, and related applications of IT."

Cerner’s ProVision document imaging system achieved second prize in its category.