Oracle Health has achieved a significant milestone with its next-generation Electronic Health Record (EHR), which is now certified and ready for adoption by ambulatory customers across the United States. The new EHR has received certification from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology and has successfully met the compliance requirements for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances (EPCS). These certifications validate that the platform adheres to rigorous federal standards encompassing functionality, security, reliability, and interoperability.
Innovative Features of Oracle Health’s EHR
Designed from the ground up, the Oracle Health EHR integrates artificial intelligence at every layer and workflow. This native AI incorporation aims to alleviate the administrative burdens that have historically distracted clinicians from their primary focus: patient care.
Key features of the EHR include:
– **Voice Command Interface**: Clinicians can now use voice commands to access information quickly. They can inquire about a patient’s recent lab results or current medications without needing to navigate through multiple screens and clicks.
– **Clinical Intelligence**: The AI is trained on various clinical concepts, including conditions, diagnoses, and care pathways. This allows it to interpret text, understand clinical meanings, and recognize relationships between concepts, providing richer, more accurate real-time insights.
– **Explainable Insights**: Unlike other systems that depend on narrow, past-data predictors, Oracle’s AI delivers explainable recommendations that support both clinicians and patients.
– **Open System**: The system, while natively built, remains open for customers to extend Oracle’s AI agents, construct their own, or integrate third-party models into their workflows.
Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, emphasized the transformative potential of this EHR. “For decades, EHRs that were supposed to support clinicians instead entangled them in administrative tasks and processes that took valuable time away from patient care,” she stated. “Oracle Health EHR is a breakthrough. We have made it our mission to deliver transformation to the healthcare system and our new EHR is a testament to this commitment. We are harnessing AI to bring greater intelligence to the bedside, reduce friction between payers and providers, and nearly eliminate the countless hours of data entry required by our nation’s healers.”
As healthcare continues to evolve, the successful certification of Oracle Health’s EHR represents a significant step towards streamlining processes and enhancing the clinician experience. The integration of AI not only provides immediate benefits for healthcare professionals but also promises improved patient outcomes through more efficient care delivery.
