Cerner Millennium Software

Intuitive, easy to use

Pros

Comprehensive, easy to use. Easy to save favorite “power plans” which streamlines CPOE. Well organized, components easy to find.

Cons

Our facility does not use the mother/baby component, so there is a lot of double charting for nurses and searching for physicians to get a complete picture of what’s going on. That being said, it could be that the center module isn’t very good/worthwhile and that’s why they did it this way. Wish I had a chance to try it out and see..

Millenium Powerchart Works Well - If you have the right version!

Pros

This is an excellent system for inpatient hospital use. It's well organized and easy to find what you're looking for. It's also easy from an administrative/organizational standpoint to create customization

Cons

If you have a version that does not have as many of the robust features it can be very cumbersome and difficult to use and navigate. I've used both a good version and a bad version.

The Love for Cerner Millennium

Pros

The Cerner product positive values were ease of Use, integration with other Cerner clinic modules . The Millennium modules work well together for patient care for example the Lab(Pathnet Module), pharmacy Pharmnet), surgical applications(Surginet)

Cons

With a few new installs Cerner code has issues with the Integration of Millennium with other EHR products(Epic, Meditech)

Good overall system.

Pros

Intuitive for the most part relatively easy to use.
Most Data easy to find
New provider layout works very well with dictation.

Cons

The note templates are less intuitive to build and use than with Epic. Data does not as easily pull in and auto-refresh in this regard.

Adequate

Pros

Ease of use compared to peers allows for easy navigation on desktop computers and easy to enter and look for info

Cons

Poor access on mobile devices difficult to read interface on smaller screens need to use desktops for that

Powerchart is very easy to learn and explore

Pros

Easily accessible Emergency Department notes. Labs all print out with reference ranges. All wellspan offices were linked making it easy to see consult notes

Cons

Logging in multiple times a day makes it more time consuming.

Good software, once you know how to use it

Enjoyed the software for the most part

Pros

A variety of options and different ways of doing things, very adverse and a lot of different descriptive features

Cons

Sometimes hard to figure out, mistakes can easily be made if you’re not paying attention to what you’re doing

Does an adequate job

Pros

One can look up notes from various medical specialties. Can create order sets and delete as needed. Can order consults from various specialties.

Cons

Graphic layout is difficult to navigate. One must scroll at length to find what one is seeking. Sometimes too much information grouped together makes it difficult.

Cerner Experience

There are no great EMRs that have been developed. Cerner is getting close though

Pros

There are many options for dictation. Dragon, IPad, etc.
It is easy to create templates.
Integrates well with hospital.

Cons

Cerner is on the expensive side.
I wish the IPad and PC notes looked the same. IPad notes have no patient header.
Multiple logins.

Millennium

Pros

Millennium is very easy to learn and convenient to use . I have been using it for couple years and have no issues.