What You Should Know:
– Oracle has introduced its new, modern Electronic Health Record (EHR) system for ambulatory providers in the U.S., a solution designed to bring EHRs into the 21st century.
– The new Oracle Health EHR is an AI-fueled, voice-first solution that helps clinicians enhance care quality by providing contextual and conversational intelligence.
Reimagining Care for the “Agentic AI” Era
The Oracle Health EHR is built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a secure, cloud-based foundation that uses AI to organize information and support better care. To improve accuracy and safety, the system was trained on a wide range of clinical concepts, including conditions, lab results, and medications. Its AI agents can understand clinical meaning, which allows for richer, more accurate, and in-the-moment insights, such as understanding which medications align with specific conditions.
Clinicians can now use voice commands to ask for information, such as recent lab results and current medications, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple screens and clicks. This secure system, developed in partnership with frontline providers, aims to streamline workflows, cut administrative busywork, and empower clinicians to focus on their patients. Oracle’s native AI agents work together as a unified, orchestrated system, sharing context and collaborating in near real time to increase efficiency.
According to Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences, Oracle took on the challenge of creating an entirely new EHR, “built in the cloud for the Agentic AI era”. Unlike competitors who may simply add features to older technology, Oracle’s solution uses AI agents as “smart assistants” that dynamically surface critical insights and suggest actions, all while keeping clinicians in control. This is intended to free healthcare providers from technical burdens so they can focus on “caring, connecting, healing, and preventing illness”
