Cerner: "It’s in the DNA of our company to have the vision and passion to fix what’s broken in health care." Maybe they should fix their software first?

I point out this hyper-exuberant piece on health IT in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.Clearly someone at Cerner thinks they're going to cure the world with "population health" and their computer software:With its Healthy Nevada initiative, Cerner Corp. cultivates a culture of healthSt. Louis Post-DispatchDiane Stafford,  Kansas City StarMay 11, 2014http://www.stltoday.com/news/special-reports/mohealth/updates/with-its-healthy-nevada-initiative-cerner-corp-cultivates-a-culture/article_8cc3168f-fd9f-5e7e-ba80-cc05dd6a35f9.htmlCerner Corp. employees started visiting Nevada, Mo., in 2011, looking to adopt a community as a testing ground for theories to control skyrocketing medical costs.At the outset, “our discussions were marked by a lot of confusion,” recalled City Manager John David Kehrman. “We thought of Cerner as a data company. We didn’t understand what they wanted.”The North Kansas City-based company, grown to global prominence by selling health care information technology to hospitals and doctors, aimed to reach a broader audience with a message: You have to take more responsibility for your own health.... the company’s bigger evolution is that it’s investing millions in its next-generation software, dubbed Healthe Intent, which tracks individual and group health and treatment results. It re-imagines jobs in the health care industry and eventually will reach into patients’ homes.If the initiatives blossom, Cerner executives believe they will...
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