By teaming up with Uber Health, Cerner can up its value to partners by helping hospitals fend off high costs of missed appointments:
With the integration, a doctor can book a ride for a patient, whose name and address will autopopulate from the EHR straight into a ride request. The Cerner partnership — which will start by offering the Uber Health capability to Cerner's US-based hospital and health system clients — should be mutually beneficial to Uber and its fast-growing health division and to the thousands of providers operating through Cerner.
This partnership also provides yet another avenue of growth for Uber's booming health arm: It has forged team-ups for a slew of nonemergency medical transport ventures over the last year, all of which contributed to the 400% year-over-year growth it reported in Q2 2019, Meanwhile, Cerner can up its value to partners by helping hospitals and health systems fend off high costs associated with missed appointments without friction. Around 3.
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