David Feinberg:
Healthcare is people taking care of people. The first thing that we’re doing at Oracle Health to modernize the electronic health record is to free the caregiver from the computer. Let me give you an example of a tool we are scaling up right now. Imagine a patient with diabetes who is recovering from pneumonia. She visits the doctor with out-of-control high blood pressure. The doctor gets a summary on their phone about the patient’s medical history. The EHR tool has also pulled population health data to show that she has food insecurity. Following an examination, the doctor concludes that the pneumonia is getting better but that the patient needs to increase her dose of metformin for better diabetes control. The doctor also decides to enroll the patient in a food prescription program. The doctor and patient agree to schedule a three-month checkup.
With our technology, our expectation is that the doctor will be able to do that entire visit with the computer to their back. All the information, the risk adjustment factor score, the note to the insurance company, the change in the order of the metformin to increase the dose, the enrolment in the food prescription program, the note to the patient, the note to the referring physician and the progress note could be done by technology, making the doctor’s job easier. We aren’t trying to take it from 30 clicks to 20 clicks, we are looking to take it to zero clicks, so the caregiver can focus on care and building a relationship with the patient.
What is exciting to me since Cerner became part of Oracle is that we are no longer an EHR company. We are an open and connected, enabled platform that’s actually EHR-agnostic. That brings together so many other important disparate data sets in healthcare that need to be put into a platform and includes clinical trials, claims processing, enterprise resource planning, supply chain and human capital management. Since we’re part of Oracle, we are all about building a platform instead of point solutions.
