Cerner, EMC to deliver EPR

Healthcare IT provider Cerner Corp. and storage vendor EMC Corp. announced a global reseller agreement at this week's TEPR Conference.

The agreement enables Cerner to offer the full-range of EMC-networked storage systems, software and services to healthcare providers for its electronic patient record system.

As part of Cerner's Millennium architecture, the company will offer the EMC Symmetrix, EMC Clariion and EMC Centera networked storage systems, as well as the EMC ControlCenter family of management software to healthcare providers. Cerner Millennium architecture enables clinicians to electronically access medical records as well as the latest evidence-based knowledge through a secure IT environment.

Healthcare organizations that have already deployed systems from Cerner and EMC include BayCare Health System in Florida, Emory Healthcare in Georgia and Kaleida Health in New York.

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