242 Cerner Testimonials

"Having staff consistently connected is vital to providing quality patient care. The reduction in network outages is very important for our staff and patients, and we are now enjoying the positive outcomes from the efficiency."

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

"Excellence is never achieved by accident. We have been deliberate in our improvement efforts for more than 10 years, and are proud that the results of our efforts benefit our patients and the community. We also want to assure our community that the journey will continue."

"It's very important each minute you have. There's rarely enough time to accomplish everything you need to do in a day. Having more time, being focused on the patient's room, learning more about the patient's condition or reading notes allows you to offer better care."

"Nurses don't want their documentation to take them away from patient care."

"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."

"Our EHR warning appears early in the prescription writing process. Our goal was to provide actionable information at the moment it is needed – in this case, that means when the prescription is initiated, before the prescriber has gone through the whole process of filling in prescription information."

"I did not realize the patient had a prior issue with narcotics. The system picked up on a drug screen from many years back. I went back and opened a conversation with the woman, letting her know the system indicated she'd had a positive opioid screen in the past. She was very quick to say, 'Please, I don't want any opioid medications.' Then she told me about her history, and we were able to work through that together."

"It certainly pushed us to think about how we would treat pain differently. I think initially when we started out, we were looking at the way to review those patients who had abuse potential. But that led us very quickly into much broader conversations about how we treat pain. How do we look for alternatives to opioids? How do we then take that information and provide tools needed to our prescribers?"

"By reducing our A/R days, you have more cash on hand, which can be used to drive better patient care. Our cash fuels the development of new programs that help serve our community and better fulfill our patients’ needs."

"Breastfeeding has lots of benefits both for the mother and the baby. Among those are emotional brain development, and it boosts the baby’s immune system. But it also helps the mother; it reduces many diseases like ovarian and breast cancer."

"Initially we had a hard time encouraging them. You can easily grab formula at the store. Mothers think, ‘Why have all the pain from breastfeeding?’ That’s why we are educating and re-educating mothers."

"We can chart the mother’s experience of breastfeeding and assess them. Nurses can look back in the chart and better assess and educate the mother on what they need."

"Dynamic Documentation benefited our staff by allowing all caregivers, and even case managers, to review documentation in near real-time."

"Margins are tight in every hospital, so costs need to be monitored."