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“Cerner ’ s Well-being offering breaks away from the siloed approach of traditional standalone wellness apps and puts the person at the centre ”
— Heather Owen , Cerner securely message health coaches and more .” All of this is built on the idea that prevention is better than curing ; if a user ’ s individual goals can be guided and engaged with specific activities , Cerner hopes to create , maintain and improve lifestyle behaviours .
Centred on a Big Data platform capable of aggregating data from multitudinous sources , including aspects such as clinical claims , payer data and social determinants of health insights , Owen says that Cerner ’ s app creates a detailed longitudinal record for each user . “ Intelligence runs within the platform to provide insights and suggest next steps to the individual , coach and the broader care team via the longitudinal plan ,” she continues . “ Analytics dashboards within our app also enable proactive management of wellness-related campaigns and metrics within and across cohorts .” Essentially , Cerner ’ s app integrates an extensive framework of functions and capabilities created in-house , as well as third-party and partner
SUMMER / AUTUMN 2020