What You Should Know
- The Switch: Hillsboro Health, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Illinois, is transitioning from legacy systems to the Oracle Health Foundation EHR to standardize clinical operations across its network.
- The AI: The hospital is deploying the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, a generative AI voice tool that automatically drafts structured notes from patient-clinician conversations, drastically reducing “pajama time” for doctors.
- The Network: By implementing Oracle Health Seamless Exchange, Hillsboro clinicians will now have the ability to aggregate data from external health exchanges and immunization registries, creating a single, deduplicated longitudinal record for patients.
Bridging the Rural Tech Gap
Rural hospitals face unique pressure. They must deliver comprehensive care—emergency, inpatient, surgery, and therapy—often with fewer staff and tighter margins than their urban counterparts. Administrative burden in this environment isn’t just an annoyance; it’s an existential threat to retention.
By adopting Oracle’s Foundation EHR, Hillsboro is standardizing its disparate clinical systems into one verified platform. But the Clinical AI Agent is the game-changer. By automating the drafting of notes, the technology effectively gives every rural doctor a digital scribe, allowing them to focus on the patient rather than the keyboard.
Seamless Exchange for Interoperability
The deployment also includes Oracle Health Seamless Exchange. In rural health, patients often travel across county lines for specialty care, leaving their data scattered. Seamless Exchange allows Hillsboro clinicians to securely aggregate data from national and local exchanges, cleaning and deduplicating it into a usable format.
“By moving to Oracle Health’s unified platform and innovative AI solutions, we’re not only simplifying processes for our clinicians but also enabling our team to focus more time on delivering exceptional care,” said Michael Alexander, CEO of Hillsboro Health.
