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David W.
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What do you like best about Cerner?

Cerner has tons of features and can be tailored to the needs of your business. Great security features as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cerner?

It requires a lot of maintenance to manage if using it at high volumes, which is how it is used at my workplace. It also takes some time to learn how to use optimally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cerner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cerner is used at my workplace for managing all health systems records and submitting orders. The benefit is the ability to organize and securely maintain so much data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Cerner?

Practice Management System.

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Practice Management System.


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Seller
Cerner
Year Founded
1979
HQ Location
Kansas City, MO
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
15,295 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
VIE - Vienna Stock Exchange
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$5,505

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Experienced marketer with a passion for data, strategy and results

Recent Cerner Reviews

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Syed H.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Cerner as a physician in training"
The best part about Cerner was the ease of access to note writing tools, the simplicity of the user interface, and the elegant organization of lab ...
Kathlyn Mae M.
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Kathlyn Mae M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Cerner for healthcare"
Healthcare, patient assessments, patient EHR
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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Product is easy to use"
Cerner allows our organization to chart and track patient documents free of errror.
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Medical education
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cerner?

The best part about Cerner was the ease of access to note writing tools, the simplicity of the user interface, and the elegant organization of lab values as well as easy access to Neuro imaging, which is heavily used as I am a neurologist in training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cerner?

A lack of a feature such as care everywhere as seen in Epic, which was a huge game changer for us when we switched. However because of the simplicity and organization of not writing tools in Cerner, I actually really did miss Cerner when we switched over to a different EHR at our hospital. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cerner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ease of note writing, access to daily lab values, able to view new changes in patient status, seamlessly using neuro imaging tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kathlyn Mae M.
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What do you like best about Cerner?

Healthcare, patient assessments, patient EHR Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cerner?

hangs, slow, sometimes a lot to click, depends on kind of cerner app or version you will have Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cerner solving and how is that benefiting you?

is not a problem, cerner is froendly easy to navigate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cerner?

Cerner allows our organization to chart and track patient documents free of errror. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cerner?

The functionality of the program could use some work, the training provided could be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cerner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cerner has allowed our patients to go anywhere in the system and have their health records available in almost an instant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ka Ming L.
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Food Services Supervisor/Diet Technician/Administrator
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What do you like best about Cerner?

Everything is done electronically and records are kept. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cerner?

Limitation of customization for non - management level usage.

Ideally there should only be one nutrition order ( any new order would override old orders). It would be helpful if users are able to filter out everything they don't need without having to submit a request to do this.

It would also be helpful if there is a report showing any transfer &/or patient discharges since the last time we refreshed the site Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cerner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having all physicians orders and labworks electronically uploaded (instead of having a physical copy). Benefits: most up to date order / report is shown... And accessible by all different multidisciplinary health care team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cerner?

Remotely used from home or anywhere from mobile Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cerner?

Other additional social media related features should be added which possible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cerner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Health related practice features, remote access, patient management system etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Julie P.
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What do you like best about Cerner?

I don't really like anything about Cerner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cerner?

Too many windows to go through to get to information. Have a hard time finding information I need, such as infusion times, orders, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cerner solving and how is that benefiting you?

I worked with Cerner a couple years ago and again recently. Nothing has changed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joanne J.
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Electronic Health Record Coordinator
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cerner?

Progress Noting functionality is highly configurable and can be attached to specific user templates and profiles. Individualized levels of security is also highly configurable with menu groups, user-specific access control, homepage templates, credentials, and other ways to control what a clinician/staff member can see and do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cerner?

The billing module is very difficult for my organization to use as we work with a variety of both commercial and state PMAP/Medicare/Medical Assistance payors. We have to use a 3rd party clearing house and the Cerner product requires a lot of manual editing and managing of claims that might be rejected due to non-clinical reasons.

The reporting functionality on the older Cerner behavioral health product is not useful. We have seen a preview of the newer Millennium product, but even that does not allow as much configuration and ease of use as other behavioral health EHR products. Currently, in order to do clinical, billing, and operational reporting for our organization we have to use Microsoft Access databases that draw exported data (.csv files) from the Cerner product, but the reports have to be run and acted upon through Mircosoft products.

Additionally, the support from Cerner headquarters has been very poor. We have had an issue with promoting (a small upgrade with additional Cerner software) that is impacting some of our clinical documentation and communicated the importance of getting this fixed ASAP to Cerner. Their support has been spotty (some weeks we get phone calls and attention, then others we receive no communication for 3 weeks at a time). The issues has been going on 3 months and still we have no timeline from them about when we can get it fixed, even after our attempts to contact and get updates at least twice a week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cerner:

Cerner is improving its behavioral health product, but it is still not at the same level of integrated functionality as other EHR products that focus only on behavioral health. If you are an organization that only does behavioral health I would not recommend using Cerner products. If you have both Medical and Mental health, then it might be better since Cerner's medical modules are more advanced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cerner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cerner behavioral health is our EHR solution allowing us to incorporate clinical documentation, billing, and (to some extent) reporting on business operations. It allows for secure documenting of clinical notes, diagnostic and other assessments, management of client forms, billing information, behavioral health billing and insurance management, and clinical oversight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Elizabeth H.
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What do you like best about Cerner?

It's easy to find information of specimen locations. Decently easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cerner?

Levels of access needed to be able to use certain features it seems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cerner solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm using cerner to locate blood specimens from patients' daily routine blood draws. It's nice to have everything categorized and tagged with a location Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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What do you like best about Cerner?

Cerner is generally straightforward and easy to use. There are not a lot of hidden things that are difficult to find. It is easy to learn whether or not you have experience working with electronic medical records. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cerner?

You can only have two patient charts opened at a time, which poses a challenge if you are trying to multitask or your tasks necessitate having multiple charts open simultaneously. It would be helpful to have to ability to have more than two charts open at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cerner solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cerner allows entering orders quickly and communicating with other staff quickly as well. It also makes training new staff members more efficient because it is easy to use and learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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What do you like best about Cerner?

There are tabs for various departmental results such as lab, dietary, pharmacy, so that everything is well organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cerner?

Cerner only provides infrastructure for many functions. You need to have an IT team build functions for templates. Cerner doesn't do that build for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cerner solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's a very good EHR system for physician, ancillary, pharmacy, radiology and all other departments. It is also very good for results documentation. However, it is poor for patuent interface and posting results for patients to access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.