EHR vendor Oracle Health, formerly known as Cerner, had a busy July, with a plan to eliminate clicks and the continuation of a big health system partnership. Here are eight updates from the month.
1. Oracle Health plans to go beyond just reducing the number of clicks in the EHR, General Manager Seema Verma wrote July 16 on LinkedIn. "Our prescription has been far bolder and the directive to the Oracle engineers was: 'get rid of the clicks,'" she said.
2. Atlantic City, N.J.-based AtlantiCare and Oracle Health are teaming up for a six-year initiative dubbed "Vision 2030," which includes embedding 20 new solutions and more than 60 capabilities across its organization, the health system's CIO told Becker's for a July 16 story.
3. Lawmakers are concerned that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Oracle Health EHR rollout could require the government to hire many additional staffers, Military.com reported July 25.
4. Oracle Health added 66 new hospitals and 9,279 new beds outside of the U.S. last year, according to a July 8 KLAS Report.
5. Forbes named Oracle co-founder and chair Larry Ellison the fifth-richest person in the world July 1 with a net worth of $173 billion.
6. EHR consulting firm Nordic informed the Ohio Department of Job & Family Services of a workforce reduction that will include reassigning or parting ways with 197 employees, Becker's reported July 8. The company's experts specialize in EHR installations involving Epic, Oracle Health, Meditech and more.
7. In 10 years, EHRs will be more streamlined as companies such as Epic, Oracle and Meditech refine current technology to provider needs and patient demands, predicted Ebrahim Barkoudah, MD, system chief of hospital medicine at Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health, in a July 3 Becker's story.
8. U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale of Montana, chair of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs' Subcommittee on Technology Modernization, said July 22 that VA pharmacy staff are struggling with Oracle Health's EHR pharmacy software functions.