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Cerner Corp. executives gathered Wednesday for the North Kansas City-based company's annual shareholder meeting, but CEO Neal Patterson still remained absent.
Cliff Illig, co-founder and vice chairman of Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN), said Patterson, who also is the company's chairman, had attended board meetings during the past few days and remains focused on the company's vision, innovation and strategies.
"He said he would like to lead this event, but after a couple of days of meetings, I encouraged…