This enhanced integration is expected to help reduce medication errors, improve clinician workflow and increase patient safety, according to the release. The two companies will develop a Pyxis health IT adaptor, which is expected to support the integration of EHR systems and clinical information in the medication management, pharmacy and perioperative processes and will be the first step in a broader intent to integrate CareFusion devices with Cerner systems.
“This new relationship between Cerner and CareFusion is a significant step towards closing the current communication gap between healthcare devices and information technology that exists today,” William Spooner, chief information officer at Sharp Health Care, a seven-hospital system, said in the release. “The healthcare environment is crowded with disparate devices and technologies that don’t talk to each other and require manual steps by clinicians, which leads to duplication in workflow, a higher risk of medical errors and noncompliance with regulatory guidelines.”
Cerner and CareFusion are extending their interoperability expertise and experience by offering enhanced medication and supply management capabilities to existing and new Cerner and Pyxis clients. As an extension of Cerner’s closed loop medication management strategy, Cerner will serve as a value added reseller of CareFusion Pyxis dispensing technologies in select accounts within Cerner’s core EHR installed base, according to the release.
Read the release on Cerner and CareFusion’s integration agreement.
