Cerner

Cerner Corporation is an American company from North Kansas City, Missouri. It was founded in 1979 and develops information technology for the healthcare sector. The global company employs approximately 10,000 people. The shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange NASDAQ NASDAQ -100.

History

Cerner was founded in 1979 as a PGI & Associates through the three work colleagues Neal Patterson, Cliff Illig and Paul gorup, the then Arthur Andersen left to start his own company. In 1982 they brought with PathNet ® out the first product, which was used for the first time at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A few years later, Cerner was able to secure a total of $ 1.5 million venture capital from the First Chicago Capital Corporation, thus driving the company's development.

In 1986, the IPO of Cerner in a generated sales of just 17 million dollars. As early as 1992 the turnover reached the mark of 100 million dollars and rises to 2005 to more than a billion dollars.

Opened in 2006 at its headquarters in North Kansas City Cerner Healthe Clinic and the following year a new data center. In addition, contracts with new clients in Spain and Egypt. In the same year took over one the Etreby Computer Company.

2009 founded Cerner in collaboration with the University of Missouri Tiger Institute for Health Innovation and took over with IMC HealthCare another company. Cerner was recorded in 2009 in the NASDAQ -100 and 2010 in the S & P 500.

Locations

Cerner Corporation has offices worldwide. In Germany, Cerner Germany GmbH is present with headquarters in Idstein near Frankfurt am Main. The largest subsidiaries are Cerner Mega Source, Inc., Cerner Corporation Pty. , Ltd.. (Australia), Cerner Germany GmbH ( Germany ), Cerner Arabia Co. Ltd.. (Saudi Arabia) and Cerner Limited (United Kingdom).