Oracle Health has officially announced the launch of its new electronic health record (EHR) innovations that are all designed to help clinicians streamline routine tasks and deliver more efficient, informed patient care. According to certain reports, these new innovations make it possible for caregivers to quickly access and update critical patient information from practically anywhere, thus generating greater efficiency and reducing burden. More on the same would reveal how the stated development enable will all healthcare professionals to access streamlined chart reviews for quickly surfacing critical patient information. Next up, there will be advanced documentation tools that, in turn, are going to support updates, as well as consultations on the go. Markedly enough, Oracle’s customers can also come expecting whole new medication processes that should go a long distance in identifying errors to increase safety.
Furthermore, these customers are likely to come across an updated order management facility, a facility which is now decked up with closed-loop tracking. Moving on to the enhanced mobile charting capabilities, they will basically let clinicians update patient details in near real-time from practically anywhere. Joining that would be a set of expanded capabilities available across Oracle Health Provider Portal. Such capabilities will come in handy when helping Oracle Health Ambulatory Referral Management users view and track patient referrals. A ripple of this would be reduced time from referral creation to an appointment being scheduled.
Beyond that, Oracle Health also introduced a renewed version of its Oracle Health Seamless Exchange solution, which allows practitioner to get a more complete view of a patient throughout the care continuum, something they can do by safely accessing data from outside health organizations through national networks and bringing that information into the patient’s existing chart. To go along with it, there are authorized sources that can be called upon to write directly into the local record, and therefore, produce a single, longitudinal record for every patient. Till date, users have successfully managed to duplicate and filter 99% of their data through the given solution. Anyway, as for what the update brings here, it will make data more available open, and secure using the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).
“Since the Cerner acquisition, Oracle has invested tens of thousands of engineering hours and millions of dollars to enhance our core clinical applications and improve the performance, usability, and security of our EHR,” said Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager at Oracle Health and Life Sciences. “We are committed to making our EHR the most functional and user-friendly in the market. To enable the future of healthcare, we need to build for tomorrow, not simply bolt on features to platforms designed for the past.”
Rounding up highlights would be the introduction of Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant, a technology built specifically to help ambulatory clinics reduce physician burnout. In essence, this offering works by combining generative AI, clinical intelligence, a multimodal voice, and touch-based interface into a single unified solution which enables physicians to focus on patients, instead of computer screens. Also boasting integration with Oracle Health EHR, the stated digital assistant automates draft note generation from physician-patient conversations to reinvent the entire care delivery experience. Making this innovation all the more important is a fact that its early users have saved on average more than four and a half minutes per patient and 20-40% in documentation time each day.
The new solutions build upon the work Oracle Health has done in recent times. For instance, over the past year, the company implemented several hundred performance and scalability enhancements to help clinicians access critical information and complete tasks faster. These enhancements, in turn, have optimized key workflows, including patient search, printing, document scanning, medical record requests, registration, and appointment scheduling across the EHR solutions. Apart from that, Oracle also launched the Autonomous Shield initiative a few months ago to create a safer and more secure healthcare ecosystem. In fact, so far, this initiative has empowered more than 1,000 Oracle Health EHR customers to strengthen their defenses by migrating to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
