Modern Healthcare December 2, 2017
With revenue topping $4.8 billion and electronic health record systems deployed in nearly 1,000 hospitals, Cerner Corp. wields significant influence over the state of information technology. The Kansas City, Mo.-based company helped found CommonWell, a collaborative of IT firms hoping to improve information-sharing. Cerner is poised to ink a lucrative contract to overhaul the Veterans Affairs Department’s EHR and it’s already helping revamp the Defense Department’s system. Cerner President Zane Burke recently spoke with Modern Healthcare reporter Rachel Z. Arndt. This is an edited transcript.
Information-sharing
Fundamentally, I don’t believe any of us should compete on interoperability and information-blocking. And I think the tricky part has to do with overt versus covert. I don’t think anybody is going to overtly...
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