Oracle has officially announced significant enhancements for its Oracle Health Data Intelligence suite.
According to certain reports, these enhancements leverage high performance and military-grade security1 of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and the latest innovations in AI to help healthcare organizations enhance patient care, optimize financial performance, and improve decision-making across their networks.
In essence, the capabilities will join Oracle Health Data Intelligence’s existing capacity to continuously and securely integrate patient data from a wide range of sources i.e. clinical, claims, social determinants, pharmacy, and more. This the solution markedly does to deliver insights throughout back office and point-of-care workflows. More on the same would reveal how this electronic health record (EHR)-agnostic suite of cloud infrastructure, analytics, and applications makes it possible for a broad range of healthcare and government stakeholders to apply data from across the healthcare ecosystem without the usual cost and complexity of integrating disparate information and systems.
Anyway, starting with the new updates introduced across Oracle Health Clinical Intelligence, we begin from the prospect of optimized clinical and financial outcomes that rely upon value-based care contract performance tracking and insights to improve patient care quality and reduce costs. Furthermore, there is a feature of AI-powered prioritization which supports proactive care by helping understand patients who are most likely to benefit from outreach, as well as by suggesting the next best steps to help avoid costly emergency visits and hospitalizations.
Next up, we have actionable insights across EHRs that are made available alongside the Oracle Health companion app to help clinicians and care managers close gaps in the patient experience and document Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC), all for the purpose of improving care quality.
You can also come expecting an improvement in performance reporting, something which the solution will achieve through the expansion of Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) content catalog. Beyond that, it will also achieve that through measures within the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) catalog, updated HCC classifications for risk adjustment improvements, and updates to the patient conditions available in the clinical catalog.
“Oracle Health Data Intelligence works with any EHR and we are proud to make this available to all health systems. This not only eliminates the blind spots resulting from data silos, it also uses advances in AI to enable healthcare organizations to be more predictive and proactive in their approach to care plans and reporting,” said Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences.
Oracle has even scaled up its Oracle Health Analytics Intelligence solution, which is a modern data warehouse and analytics offering that can be used for integrating, cleansing, normalizing, and unifying data from multiple sources so to support decision-making.
The stated scale up further includes the introduction of analytics intelligence reporting and visualizations that will bank upon natural language queries to guide a broad range of clinical and business users in generating reports and gaining insight from the solution. Next up, users can come expecting an Emergency Medicine: Order Analysis functionality, which will reduce emergency department length-of-stay by identifying bottlenecks created during order turnaround times.
The updated solution also promises to screen social determinants of health to generate insight about screening compliance and help better understand patients with special needs to improve care and access.
Apart from that, the update in question allows Oracle Health Analytics Intelligence solution to conduct an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Analysis, and therefore, achieve insight into antimicrobial mediation, duration of use, as well as outcome. You can also access alerts regarding antimicrobial usage volumes to improve health outcomes and reduce antimicrobial use.
Turning our attention towards the updates announced for Oracle Health Care Coordination Intelligence, they include gains of 5x in care manager efficiency during patient case reviews. These gains stem from AI-powered summaries that surface insights on recent encounters, conditions, changes to at-home medications, and future appointments.
The update even provides greater understanding of patients’ medical histories with on-demand access to supplemental clinical and medical administration records.