Hospital system adopts Cerner software

Another hospital chain going electronic...BD

Cerner Corp., which has been bucking downward stock market trends, continued its recent momentum by announcing a new contract Wednesday.
The North Kansas City-based health care information technology company (Nasdaq: CERN) reported that MedStar Health, the largest health system in the Baltimore/Washington region, will implement Cerner Millennium software programs at all seven of its hospitals.
The hospitals serve more than 147,000 inpatients and 1.5 million outpatients a year.