Cerner Named Top Corporate Citizen by Canadian HIT Association.Award Honors Company's Dedication to the Nation's E-Health Industry KANSAS CITY Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Mo. -- Last week, a premier Canadian Health Informatics Health informatics or medical informatics is the intersection of information science, computer science and health care. It deals with the resources, devices and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of information in health and biomedicine. association presented Cerner with its annual Corporate Citizenship Corporate Citizenship The extent to which businesses are socially responsible in meeting legal, ethical and economic responsibilities placed on them by shareholders. The aim it to create higher standards of living and quality of life in the community in which it operates, while award for its commitment to and passion for heath informatics and its contribution to the ongoing support of the healthcare industry in Canada. Cerner earned the award based on the recommendations of its Canadian industry peers and clients. The event, called the Annual Canadian Health Informatics Awards Gala, celebrates excellence in the utilization of information and technology to improve the health of Canadians. The event was co-hosted by COACH: Canada's Health Informatics Association and by CHITTA CHITTA Canadian Healthcare Information Technology Trade Association (Canada) , The Canadian Healthcare Information Technology Trade Association. The annual awards gala, held this year in downtown Toronto Downtown Toronto is the heart of the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately bounded by Bloor Street (including areas slightly north of Bloor around Yonge Street) to the north, Lake Ontario to the south, Bayview Avenue - Don Valley Parkway to the east, and Bathurst , honors individuals and organizations that demonstrate leadership, excellence and high levels of service within the Canadian health informatics community. Representatives from the federal and provincial governments, as well as health authorities, consultants and vendors were all in the gala's crowd as Cerner received the top corporate honor. Jim Shave, president of Cerner Canada, accepted the award on behalf of the company. "Cerner is honored to be recognized for its contributions to the health informatics community," said Shave. "For more than 27 years, we have worked to improve the quality of healthcare together with our clients and dedicate this award to all health organizations who share in our vision to transform healthcare." The award underscores the tremendous contributions the Cerner team has made over the years to the development of healthcare information technology and e-health in Canada. Recently, Cerner clients have also been recognized by their peers. London Health Sciences and the Thames Valley Hospital Planning Partnership were finalists in the Customer Care category at the recent Canadian Information Productivity Awards gala. Victoria Island Health Authority was also recognized for its implementation of Cerner's FirstNet[R] solution, an emergency triage triage Division of patients for priority of care, usually into three categories: those who will not survive even with treatment; those who will survive without treatment; and those whose survival depends on treatment. and information tracking system that won the BC Public Sector Information Technology Award for Innovation. About Cerner 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 is a trademark of Cerner: FirstNet. NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CERN CERN or European Organization for Nuclear Research, nuclear and particle physics research center straddling the French-Swiss border W of Geneva, Switzerland. . www.cerner.com. About CHITTA The concept of CHITTA was developed in late 2001 leading to its "creation" by a dedicated group of CEOs and senior executives of leading Canadian companies providing products and services to the Canadian healthcare community in April 2002. Their firms represent a broad spectrum of ICT (1) (Information and Communications Technology) An umbrella term for the information technology field. See IT. (2) (International Computers and Tabulators) See ICL. 1. (testing) ICT - In Circuit Test. services to an equally broad spectrum of Canada's healthcare delivery system and its supporting infrastructure. Health Canada was also represented in this founding group. http://www.chitta.ca/. |
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