Oracle inks electronic health record and AI agent deals with rural hospitals

Oracle has been signing up new users for its AI health software products, with three new deals this month.

Marshall Browning Hospital (MBH) has become the last hospital to sign up to use the company’s community healthcare software. Oracle’s CommunityWorks will be deployed at the hospital as a replacement for what Oracle describes as MBH’s “heavily fragmented” legacy patient records system. According to the software giant, the change should “optimise financial outcomes” for the organisation.

CommunityWorks, built on Cerner Millennium, provides a single health record for the patients of smaller or more rural community and critical access facilities, as well as a single point of information for billing.

The Du Quoin, Illinois-based hospital runs a range of speciality clinics including endocrinology, rheumatology and nephrology, alongside offering 25 critical care beds. The switch to CommunityWorks will mean that doctors and healthcare staff will be able to access a single digital record for patients, providing information about their health history for both hospital as well as clinic visits.

CommunityWorks will also automate the hospital’s billing and create “near real-time financial insights” for the organisation through its reporting functions, Oracle said.

MBH is also dipping its toe into using AI for clinical purposes, with the adoption of Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent. Oracle said the hospital will use its agentic AI to automatically create draft notes of clinicians’ consultations with patients, which can then be edited or approved by the clinicians.

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Earlier this month, Oracle announced that the Baraga County Memorial Hospital (BCMH) had also signed up to roll out Oracle Health CommunityWorks. 

BCMH’s facilities include critical care beds, clinics for specialities including cardiology, oncology, urology and orthopaedics, as well as family medicine clinics, imaging and laboratory services.

Alongside rolling out CommunityWorks, BCMH is deploying Oracle Health Seamless Exchange. This aggregates and deduplicates information from third-party data sources – for example, in BCMH’s case, importing information from immunisation registries – so they can be used within organisations’ own patient records.

Like Marshall Browning Hospital, BCMH is also increasing its work with Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, using it to create draft clinical notes for the hospital’s clinicians after they’ve seen their patients.

Elsewhere this month, Oracle announced an AI partnership with non-profit organisation Cancer Center Informatics Society (Ci4CC).

The collaboration will see the pair working together on an electronic health record that has been adapted for cancer care. The two organisations will also look at both cancer clinical care and research projects, using AI in drug development, medical trials, generating clinical evidence recommendations for doctors, and studying genomic data to create tailored medical approaches for patients.

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