Oracle and Cerner have begun integrating the two companies’ systems four months after completing a $28.4 billion merger.
The companies announced the initial integrations at the first Oracle Cerner Health Conference, held in Kansas City, Missouri. Oracle Cerner said it plans to incorporate multiple data streams into Cerner’s Millennium EHR, including Oracle’s supply chain systems, human capital management, and enterprise resource planning systems. The company says it will also integrate community data sources into the EHR.
Dr. David Feinberg, president of Oracle Health, calls it the marriage of one of the world’s largest technology companies with a market leader in EHR. According to KLAS Research, Cerner is one of the largest EHR companies, second behind Verona, Wisconsin-based Epic Systems in terms of EHR market share among US acute care hospitals.
In addition to these integrations, Oracle Cerner is rolling out a timely training program for employees. The ability of this software to identify team members who may be inexperienced in conducting a certain process.
During the event, Mike Sicilia, Oracle’s executive vice president of global business, said the joint venture between Oracle and Cerner could succeed where other big tech companies have failed in the field. health care.
“A lot of big tech companies have been trying to fix healthcare. We think they tripped their toes because they didn’t solve too many problems,” Sicilia said. “All other changes are just incremental.”
After the merger was completed in June, Oracle co-founder, chairman of the board and chief technology officer Larry Ellison outlined his plans for the combined venture. He said Oracle is building a national database of medical records so that doctors can access patient information more easily.
“This new health management system will provide much better information to healthcare professionals,” Ellison said, with improvements expected such as better patient outcomes, policy, and more. more informed public and lower health care costs. “That’s our main mission here at Oracle.”
Ellison also shared plans to add technologies to Cerner’s EHR platform. Oracle will encourage medical professionals to develop artificial intelligence tools, such as algorithms to track specific diseases, using Cerner’s software, which can then be integrated into the EHR.
This story first appeared on Digital Health Business & Technology.
