California-based Redwood Shores, Oracle offers a comprehensive and fully integrated range of cloud applications and platform services, including Oracle Health and electronic health records giant Cerner.
Entering the 2023 HIMSS Global Health Expo & Conference next week, the most important healthcare trend for the Big Tech company is the human element. The company knows doctors and employees are exhausted. This was a pre-pandemic problem, and that crisis posed a good point for it.
As they burn out, the quality of care suffers and good people leave the field altogether, the company warned.
“We can’t solve the whole problem, but we can and should find a way to address one of the main causes of physician and staff burnout – the burden of disease,” said Mike Sicilia, executive vice president. administrative burden is a frequent cause of complaints”. by Oracle Global Industries. “By alleviating that burden, we can reduce attrition and increase the time that doctors and staff are free to do what they do best, which is taking care of people.”
Healthcare IT News sat down with Sicilia to preview what Oracle will do at HIMSS23.
Q. What are the most important healthcare technology trends to be included in HIMSS23?
ONE. We need to get the job done. The first step was to digitize patient records, but now we need to complete the development of a fully open, intuitive and connected ecosystem.
At Oracle, we’re doing it through a cloud-based platform that ties everything together in a highly secure and safe environment.
In addition to patient data, we also collect data from human resource management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain, research and clinical trials, etc. to paint a complete picture. about what it takes to treat individual patients, but also to do a better job of running healthcare organizations.
This is where healthcare technology is headed – that’s where it should be.
Q. I’m sure you will showcase many things at HIMSS23. Please provide a sneak peek at one of those new things.
ONE. Our three main goals are to improve health globally, drive innovation, and reduce healthcare costs. These things are inextricably linked because each contributes to the other, so it’s about developing products that support all three.
Take the example of Seamless Exchange, which is an enhanced interoperable tool that allows a patient who might be first treated at a New York clinic, for example, to a hospital in Los Angeles. days or months, or even years later, and it’s like they’ve just walked down the hall.
Information follows the patient, and the location is unimportant. Everyone wins because the data is cumulative and only has to be collected once.
Likewise, we are bringing connectivity to clinical research. By sharing more than 100 million unidentified patient records from 100 healthcare organizations through the Oracle Cerner Learning Health Network, we are advancing that research.
Clinicians and communities that have never had the opportunity to participate in clinical discovery can now do so – this gives them faster access to new treatments, diagnoses and drugs.
All these make the system more efficient, but we can still do more. Right now, in too many places, financial management is inefficient, with vendors, payers and hospital groups all running disconnected systems. That is no longer necessary.
Through Cerner RevElate, we are helping organizations harmonize those systems. For example, at a large healthcare system, RevElate is helping to reduce repetitive and time-consuming processes through automating the billing cycle – saving time and money.
Q. What is the main message Oracle will try to send to HIMSS23 attendees?
ONE. While other tech companies have dipped their toes into healthcare, Oracle has gone all out.
Imagine an open, intelligent, cloud-based platform that securely connects payers, providers, and patients to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve health. And what if it was so intuitive that clinicians could spend less time on administrative tasks and more time on patient care.
Then imagine it could tackle complex staffing requirements to reduce workforce turnover while helping to ensure lifesaving supplies never run out of stock. That’s where we’re headed at Oracle for our customers and their patients.
Q. What do you think healthcare organization CIOs and similar health IT leaders should focus on most as the pandemic public health emergency draws to a close?
ONE. Like the doctors and staff they support, healthcare CIOs and IT leaders need to focus on the patient. Historically, healthcare IT has been built around hospitals, health systems, and clinicians, and the patient is the re-think.
What we’re doing is putting patients first by building an open, intelligent, cloud-based platform that connects all – patients, communities, everything – for individuals to receive care. the best possible care and the organization is at the forefront because it benefits from state-of-the-art technology and the collective wisdom of colleagues and partners around the world.
Too often, when we use the word “efficient” in healthcare, it’s a euphemism for cutting costs by cutting corners. In a patient-centered system, there are no corners to cut.
Everything interacts seamlessly and efficiently through better results, lower administrative costs, and happier, more engaged doctors and staff.
Oracle Health will be on display at Booth 921 at HIMSS23.
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