North Shore-LIJ Health System Partners with Cerner to Optimize its Lab

    Business Editors/Healthcare Editors
    HIMSS 2005 Annual Conference
    Booth #3924

    KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2005--North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, one of the nation's largest health systems, has partnered with Cerner Corp. (Nasdaq:CERN) to bring innovation into its laboratories with the leading healthcare information technology company's unified technology.
    "Selecting Cerner affords this health system a great opportunity to expand and seamlessly integrate our system's laboratories," said Robert Stallone, vice president of laboratories at the North Shore-LIJ. "As one of the country's largest provider-based reference laboratories, we are in a fantastic position to dramatically improve our processes and increase the quality of care by way of more thorough assessments and simplified laboratory procedures."
    Cerner offers a unified, proven set of clinical solutions designed to fully automate clinical and management processes in the laboratory. With the unified Cerner Millennium(R) architecture, North Shore-LIJ will introduce a comprehensive approach that will streamline complex workflows, help to eliminate errors and improve the quality and performance of all its laboratories.
    "Twenty-five years ago, Cerner created its first piece of healthcare information technology, and that first solution was a laboratory information system," said J.P. Fingado, Cerner vice president and general manager. "Because our roots are in laboratory systems, we've proven we understand laboratories and deliver the very best technology to improve turnaround time and efficiency, reduce costs and ultimately improve patient care. The decision by North Shore-LIJ to have Cerner host their Millennium PathNet(R) solutions at our data center shows their confidence in our ability to deliver superior performance, increased security, reliability and scalability."
    The agreement between Cerner and North Shore-LIJ was signed in the 4th quarter of 2004.
    Serving Long Island, Queens and Staten Island, North Shore-LIJ is comprised of 15 hospitals including three world-class tertiary hospitals as well as a nationally recognized children's hospital and a psychiatric center, hospice and home care services, a major medical research institute and many other health-related facilities. The North Shore-LIJ Core Lab is a state-of-the-art, 24-hour operation providing advanced testing services to hospitals, private physician practices and the bio-medical industry. The core laboratory outreach business continues to grow and reflects a strong foundation for North Shore-LIJ. For more information please visit www.northshorelij.com.
    Cerner's total focus is on designing, building and implementing healthcare solutions. Cerner will demonstrate how to leverage its proven solutions, including its innovative laboratory solutions, at the 2005 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference and Exhibition in Dallas from Feb. 14-17. Cerner will be located in booth #3924 at HIMSS. For more information please visit www.cerner.com/himss.

    Cerner Corp. is taking the paper chart out of healthcare, eliminating error, variance and waste in the care process. With more than 1,500 clients worldwide, Cerner is the leading supplier of healthcare information technology. The following are trademarks of Cerner: Cerner, Cerner's logo, Cerner Millennium, PathNet. (Nasdaq:CERN); www.cerner.com.

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