What You Should Know:
– Oracle Health has announced a major breakthrough with its next-generation Electronic Health Record (EHR), which is now certified and available for adoption by ambulatory customers in the U.S..
– The new EHR earned the ONC Health IT certification from the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and successfully met the DEA’s Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances (EPCS) compliance requirements. These certifications confirm the platform meets stringent federal standards for functionality, security, reliability, and interoperability.
The Oracle EHR AI-Advantage: From Clicks to Voice
The Oracle Health EHR was built from the ground up with AI embedded in every layer and workflow. The native AI integration aims to address the core problem of administrative burden that historically entangles clinicians.
Key advantages of the native AI include:
- Voice Command Interface: Clinicians can simply use voice commands to ask for information, such as a patient’s recent lab results and current medications, instead of navigating multiple screens and clicks.
- Clinical Intelligence: The AI is trained on clinical concepts (conditions, diagnoses, medications, care pathways) and can interpret text, understand clinical meaning, and recognize relationships between concepts to enable richer, more accurate, in-the-moment insights.
- Explainable Insights: Oracle’s AI provides explainable recommendations that support both clinicians and patients, unlike other systems that rely on narrow, past-data predictors lacking reasoning ability.
- Open System: While natively built, the system is open, allowing customers to extend Oracle’s agents, build their own, or integrate third-party models.
“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,” said Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences. “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.”
