Oracle on Aug. 13 announced the debut of its new electronic health system designed for U.S. ambulatory providers. It says the modernized Oracle Health EHR can help improve care quality by offering AI-enabled features that are designed to be "contextual and conversational."
WHY IT MATTERS
Described by the company as a "voice-first" system, the EHR's natively built semantic AI foundation was developed as an open system where ambulatory practices can build out Oracle's agents, create their own in-house or integrate third-party models.
The EHR's agentic AI capabilities are designed together as a "unified, orchestrated system, sharing context and collaborating in near real time to increase efficiency and process automation," the company said.
Developed with input from outpatient clinicians, the system was trained on clinical concepts – conditions, labs, medications, care pathways – to build the capability to understand clinical meaning from text, enabling richer and more accurate insights.
The aim is to help clinicians reduce clicks and avoid navigating too many screens, switching to simply use voice commands to ask for the information they need, giving clinicians the ability to make more personalized, streamlined workflows.
The new ambulatory EHR, built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, is still in the process of getting certified through the ASTP/ONC certification program. Oracle healthcare clients are able to go live on production deployments of the new EHR pending final regulatory approval, the company said.
The new EHR represents an "immersive, AI-first, and cloud-based solution designed to optimize clinical workflows and reimagine clinician and patient experiences," said Mutaz Shegewi, senior research director, worldwide healthcare provider AI, platforms and technologies at IDC, in a statement provided by Oracle.
Oracle – which holds its Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit from Sept. 9 to 11 in Orlando, Florida – says it plans to introduce a full spectrum of acute care functionality in 2026, expanding the capabilities of the EHR to support a wider range of healthcare settings and clinical needs.
THE LARGER TREND
Oracle Health has been innovating its EHR offerings, such as the introduction of mobile charting earlier this summer and submitting its application to become a Qualified Health Information Network under TEFCA earlier this year.
At the beginning of 2025, Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, offered a sneak peek at the company's plans for the new EHR, promising to "completely [reinvent] our electronic health record into a system of intelligence that helps health systems drive efficiency, improve clinical care, accelerate innovation, and reduce costs."
ON THE RECORD
Verma said in a statement that the new EHR was "built in the cloud for the Agentic AI era. Our agents act as smart assistants that can dynamically surface critical insights and queue suggested actions while enabling clinicians to remain in control."
Mike Miliard is executive editor of Healthcare IT News
Email the writer: mmiliard@himss.org
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