"The alert created an environment in which we can divorce ourselves from our own biases. The opioid epidemic crosses every demographic. It really crosses what our implicit biases are for what opioid use disorder looks like."

"With precise data that factored acuity into the staffing model, nursing leadership and finance partnered to identify the gap and develop a fiscally responsible patient care hiring plan to improve nursing workload and satisfaction, as well as provide better patient care."

"Revising how we train providers to use PowerChart Ambulatory has increased user satisfaction and productivity. Providers learn best when they’re trained closer to implementation and we’ve moved from a passive didactic approach to a clinically focused, problem-based curriculum. We’ve also implemented a mock go-live with scripted patient encounters that enable …

“These are evidence based practices that have shown, when they’re performed, the patient will have a better outcome – and that’s what’s most important."

“We're getting them to the right care venue in a timely and efficient manner, which helps improve not only the patient's overall care, but also their satisfaction.”

“It’s not uncommon for one patient to have over 15 different medications, so that’s a lot of time that could be spent better at the bedside.”

“There have been dramatic improvements. We’ve changed the whole culture of alarm safety.”

“Cerner Patient eSignature for our Patient Financial Services departments has been an innovative solution that allows for an integrated and seamless work-flow to allow real time capture of documents into our Cerner EMR."

"It was a very important request from our quality committee and nursing leadership. We wanted to move forward with barcoding to minimize administration errors."

“CareAware Connect allows team members to communicate quickly, address alarms, answer messages, and safely and efficiently care for our patients."

"That does not have health care experience, a lot of the time, does not understand the urgency or the importance of the decisions that we make.”

“We can see 50 encounters in an hour at one hospital. We had to devote a great number of hours to this. We were serious.”

“The admission of patients has been streamlined, the time shortened, and questions asked in Maternity have been standardized to be consistent with what is being asked throughout the hospital."

“Cerner is a leader in the industry and has national recognition. We needed that for a recruiting tool too – that national reputation and credibility among physicians.”

“The acuity system helps us understand patient needs at that point in time and gets nurses to think in nursing outcomes and not in tasks."