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ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cerner Corporation (Nasdaq: CERN) and Hill-Rom, an operating company of Hillenbrand Industries (NYSE: HB), announced today that they have formed a strategic relationship to integrate their technologies to improve and coordinate healthcare delivery, featuring Hill-Rom intelligent hospital beds that communicate directly with the Cerner Millennium(R) healthcare computing platform.

"The hospital environment has become increasingly complex, with the nurse having to manage multiple IT (information technology) applications and sophisticated medical devices," said Michael Gallup, vice president and general manager of Hill-Rom IT Solutions. "Our partnership with Cerner brings together two market-leading companies committed to transforming care at the bed-side by driving interoperability between applications and medical devices."

Efforts in the first stage of the partnership are focusing on the integration of Hill-Rom's intelligent bed systems, such as VersaCare(R) and TotalCare(R), with the Cerner Millennium system. Utilizing the Cerner CareAware(TM) global device connectivity architecture, the intelligent bed is able to feed data, including patient weight, bed rail position and head elevation, to the Cerner Millennium system. Access to real-time information and automation of labor-intensive tasks not only furthers safety initiatives, but also al
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