Ryan McKenna

Director, Acute Care, Cerner

Ryan Mckenna, director, Acute Care, is responsible for Acute Care Development which includes nursing and pharmacy solutions.

McKenna is also responsible for refreshing the Windows technology used to build Cerner Millennium^® applications. McKenna’s team provides support for the tools and processes needed to complete the technology uplift projects.

He joined Cerner in June 1999, and since that time has served as a software engineer, software architect and Knowledge architect for access, health information management and revenue cycle-access solutions.

McKenna was instrumental to the design and development of the United Kingdom Choose and Book and revenue cycle-access solutions. For his work, he was recognized as a Cerner Top Gun in 2001.

McKenna received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Iowa State University.