Avant-garde empowers hospitals and clinicians with information and insights to deliver high quality, cost effective care. They are building a network of hospitals and healthcare providers who use their technology and analytic tools to measure the costs of their care processes, compare treatment specific data, and learn from peer hospitals to improve their results.

A set of reports and dashboards focused on key cost and utilization measures (ED visits, admits, total cost of care, episode cost, preventable events, risk, and high cost imaging) that can be viewed across facilities, providers, practices, payors, and plans and utilizes third-party capabilities from 3M, Truven, Milliman and HealthPartners.

Cerner Corporation is a supplier of healthcare information technology solutions, services, devices and hardware. Cerner solutions optimize processes for healthcare organizations. These solutions are licensed by 9,300 facilities globally, including more than 2,650 hospitals; 3,750 physician practices 40,000 physicians; 500 ambulatory facilities, such as laboratories, ambulatory centers, cardiac facilities, radiology clinics and surgery centers; 800 home health facilities; 40 employer sites and 1,600 retail pharmacies. It operates in two segments: domestic, which includes revenue contributions and expenditures associated with business activity in the United States, and global, which includes revenue contributions and expenditures linked to business activity in Argentina, Aruba, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain and the United Arab Emirates. On May 23, 2011, it acquired Resource Systems, Inc. On October 17, 2011, it acquired Clairvia, Inc.