What You Should Know:
Oracle announced that its AI-powered clinical assistant, the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, is now available to health systems across Canada. The multimodal voice and screen-driven assistant is designed to significantly reduce the time physicians spend on administrative tasks, allowing them to dedicate more focus to direct patient care.
This expansion into the Canadian market follows successful implementations in the United States, where organizations using the solution have reported an average 30 percent reduction in daily documentation time for physicians.
Streamlining Clinical Workflows Across Diverse Specialties
The Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent offers a unified solution that integrates generative AI, agentic technology, automation, multimodal voice and screen-driven assistance, and simplified workflows. It is deeply integrated with the Oracle Health Foundation electronic health record (EHR) system.
A key function of the AI agent is its ability to generate highly accurate draft clinical notes within minutes. It also proposes potential next steps for providers to review and approve directly at the point of care, streamlining the decision-making process.
The solution is versatile, catering to more than 40 medical specialties. These include urgent care, sports medicine, nephrology, pulmonology, urology, gastroenterology, hepatology, cardiology, otolaryngology, internal medicine, and behavioural health, among others.
Significant Time Savings and Enhanced Patient Focus
By automating and simplifying documentation and information retrieval, the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent directly addresses a major pain point for physicians: the overwhelming administrative workload. The reported 30% reduction in daily documentation time in U.S. facilities highlights the potential for substantial efficiency gains. This saved time can be redirected towards patient interaction, diagnosis, and treatment planning.
Advanced Features for Seamless Clinical Interaction
The AI agent is designed to make clinical interactions more fluid and less encumbered by traditional EHR navigation. Providers can bypass cumbersome drop-down menus and screen-searching. Instead, they can access critical elements of a patient’s medical history—before, during, and after an appointment—simply by using voice commands to ask the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent.
To date, nearly a million clinical notes have been created globally using the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, demonstrating its growing adoption and impact on daily medical practice.
“Time is our most precious, non-renewable resource. Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent helps to restore the clinician-patient relationship, emphasize focused time with patients, and reduce clinician burnout,” said Erin O’Halloran, vice president and Canada market leader, Oracle Health. “The availability of this solution marks another step toward modernizing the country’s health information systems and providing a more digitally connected healthcare ecosystem.”
