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HNA Millennium is Cerner's fifth generation of HNA, the industry's most
comprehensive set of applications designed to manage health and automate
processes across the continuum of care. HNA Millennium is designed to meet
the needs of progressive health organizations today and well into the next
millennium with an enterprisewide, lifetime electronic medical record at the
core of its architecture, and a robust decision support
capability integrated into the enterprisewide messaging system.
HNA Millennium applications are object-oriented client/server solutions that
distribute maximum computing power to each user, run on open
industry-standard platforms, and feature a comprehensive person-centric
relational database.
Overall, Cerner's HNA Millennium family of solutions is designed to:
- Provide unprecedented levels of clinical decision support that enables healthcare providers to make more-informed decisions.
- Record key information at the point of care to eliminate duplication of data storage and entry, and to ensure that data are accurate and complete.
- Automate processes and facilitate sharing of information to save time for the entire care team.
- Ensure confidentiality and security of patient records.
- Provide reliable performance.
- Help patients manage their own health.
Some of the benefits of Cerner's approach to client/server computing include:
- Personalization -- HNA Millennium solutions feature Windows 95 and Windows NT graphical desktops that are easy to use and easy to manage and can be personalized to meet specific user needs.
- Scaleability -- HNA Millennium solutions are highly scaleable, both in terms of changing the number of computers on the network and in terms of upgrading the processing performance of the computers. This scaleability enables health organizations to implement HNA Millennium solutions at their own pace.
- Speed -- HNA Millennium solutions process data across multiple computers simultaneously, enabling user requests to be executed quickly.
- Security -- HNA Millennium solutions assign confidentiality levels to data and restrict certain application users on a 'need to know' basis, thereby offering the highest level of security in the industry.
- Point-of-care interfaces -- HNA Millennium solutions support the ever-increasing mobility of care teams via real-time interfaces with various point-of-care data input devices, such as handheld radio frequency devices, pen-based systems, optical readers and bar coders, MICR devices, and speech recognition devices.
- Cost-effectiveness -- HNA Millennium solutions take advantage of the processing power of the desktop PC, enabling health organizations to achieve peak system performance at a moderate cost.
- Clinical and operational performance improvements -- HNA Millennium solutions can help clients realize a number of operational benefits, such as measuring organizational performance and monitoring outcomes.
- Data availability and functionality -- HNA Millennium solutions provide powerful data analysis capabilities as well as easy retrieval and manipulation of data.
- Platform independence -- HNA Millennium solutions can run concurrently on both Digital VAX, Alpha and IBM AIX UNIX platforms with integrated data flow.
Cerner's HNA Millennium products provide solutions that will take healthcare into the next millennium and beyond.
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