Huntsville Hospital Health System Standardizes on Oracle Health to Improve Patient Care and Drive Innovation

Oracle Health Data Intelligence to help clinicians become more predictive in care, identify opportunities to maximize treatment impact, increase patient engagement 

, /PRNewswire/ -- Huntsville Hospital Health System (HH Health), one of the nation's largest not-for-profit health systems, is expanding its relationship with Oracle Health to help enhance patient care, accelerate innovation, and increase operational efficiency across its network. By expanding use of Oracle Health Foundation electronic health record (EHR) across all of its facilities and deploying Oracle Health Data Intelligence, HH Health will be able to gain a greater understanding of the health of its patient population and optimize its financial performance.  

HH Health provides care for the residents of northern Alabama and southern Tennessee with nearly 20,000 employees at a network of physician practices and clinics across many specialties and 14 community-based hospitals. As its network expanded to deliver more than 100,000 inpatients and more than 1 million outpatient procedures annually, HH Health needed to increase staff efficiency, maintain consistent, quality care across its facilities, and enhance the overall patient and provider experience. To achieve these goals, HH Health plans to standardize on Oracle Health's EHR to help coordinate care and ensure the same experience for its patients and providers as they move between facilities. The EHR successfully launched at Helen Keller Hospital and Red Bay Hospital last year and has been implemented in 41 physician practices and clinics so far. Clinicians at Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children, and Madison Hospital also have been using it since 2019. Implementations at additional hospitals and facilities will continue in the coming years.

"As we continue to connect and grow the hospitals across our region, we've selected Oracle Health as our primary healthcare technology collaborator to help us fulfill our vision of implementing an integrated patient chart to add to the quality of care, improve patient safety, and enhance continuity of care across our health system," said Rick Corn, vice president and chief information officer, Huntsville Hospital Health System. "Our community-based hospitals are a necessary resource to address the unique challenges within their patient populations, many located in rural and underserved areas. This collaboration helps to unify our network, will standardize technology, and allows us to more easily adopt innovative technologies so our facilities can function as one and remain valuable resources to each of their communities."   

As implementations continue, Oracle Health technology will integrate across its network so caregivers and staff can more easily and effectively manage patient health regardless of which HH Health facility a patient visits. The EHR provides clinicians with a consistent user experience and a single patient history as staff work between facilities. This enhances documentation processes, better informs care decisions, and simplifies follow-up with patients.

HH Health also will take advantage of Oracle Health Data Intelligence, planned to be implemented later this year, to maximize the value of its data to support innovation, optimize care plans, enhance patient engagement, and increase reimbursements. Built to take advantage of the security, performance, and scalability of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Health Data Intelligence is an EHR-agnostic suite of cloud infrastructure, analytics, and applications. The suite enables a broad range of healthcare and government stakeholders to use data from across the healthcare ecosystem without the cost and complexity of trying to integrate disparate data and systems on their own. It provides a fully managed intelligent data lake with built-in AI and data analytics capabilities and is ideal for a broad range of use cases, including providers building better population health strategies and optimizing value-based care, as well as academic medical centers seeking to accelerate their research and improve outcomes. Oracle Health Data Intelligence continuously and securely integrates patient data from a wide range of sources—clinical, claims, revenue cycle, social determinants, pharmacy, and more—to deliver insight across back office and point-of-care workflows. As a result, providers and policy makers gain a more complete view of their patients and populations and benefit from suggested next best actions to optimize care and financial performance. The insights and recommendations are connected into workflows across care teams, including into the point of care and direct outreach to patients.

"HH Health's strategic choice to expand its long-standing relationship with Oracle Health speaks volumes about the shared vision, trust, and success we have achieved over the years," said Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences. "Collaborating closely with customers like HH Health is critical as we evolve our technology to better meet the needs of clinicians and patients."

Learn more about how Oracle is advancing healthcare at https://www.oracle.com/health/.

About Huntsville Hospital Health System
Huntsville Hospital Health System is a comprehensive network of community, not-for-profit hospitals that serve as the primary provider of services and the healthcare safety net for more than 1.5 million people in northern Alabama and southern Tennessee. The Health System includes hospitals and related facilities in Huntsville, Madison, Athens, Decatur, Boaz, Fort Payne, Guntersville, Moulton, Red Bay, Sheffield, Scottsboro, and Fayetteville, TN.  Total employment of Huntsville Hospital Health System is more than 19,500. For more information visit www.hh.health

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