The awardees pose for a group photo at the Cerner Excellence Awards ceremony held in Dubai Sunday.JEDDAH – King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center won the "Best Demonstration of Patient Centered Outcomes" award for developing a child abuse alert for their caregivers at the Cerner Excellence Awards ceremony held in Dubai Sunday. The "Best Demonstration of Workflow Design Improvements for a Departmental Clinician" award was also conferred on the hospital for their work in automating the outpatient and physical therapy service lines. King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in both Riyadh and Jeddah bagged the prestigious awards for being the first organization in the Middle East to achieve HIMSS Stage 6 on the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model. Best Demonstration of Workflow Design Improvements for a Physician was awarded to Abu Dhabi Health Services Company for successfully implementing a single Cerner PACS archive allowing the exchange of PACS images amongst all of their facilities. In addition, Best Demonstration of Workflow Design Improvements for a Nurse was presented to Abu Dhabi Health Services Company in recognition for the implementation of PowerChart Maternity and the impact it has on giving nurses more time to spend with patients. "Implementation and adoption of health care information technology (IT) can be challenging, but automation offers tremendous measurable benefits toward improved patient care and enhanced workflow processes. The successes of our clients are testament to this," said Greg White, vice president and managing director, Cerner Middle East and Africa. "In light of such achievements, we are pleased to create these Excellence Awards to publicly reward and appreciate our clients' efforts to partner with us in order to create a better health care environment for its community," he added.
