Oracle is introducing new capabilities to its Oracle’s health system operations suite, including Oracle Health Patient Flow, Oracle Health Clinical Operations Whiteboard, Oracle Health Transfer Center, and Oracle Health Command Center Dashboard, empowering health systems to act quickly and effectively in emergency situations.
According to the company, with enhanced capabilities for mass transfers, bed management, evacuation planning, and more, organizations can align resources and adjust their approach in near real time to enhance management of rapidly evolving, highly disruptive events.
Customers, including MedStar Health and BayCare Health, collaborated with Oracle Health on these developments.
Oracle Health’s suite of health system operations solutions help optimize patient journeys across organizations by seamlessly coordinating critical resources throughout the care continuum so they can transform into real-time health systems. The new emergency management capabilities are planned to be available to all existing health systems operations customers at no cost.
“In moments where every second counts, technology must be an enabler, not inhibitor to swift and effective response—and this is exactly what we are delivering with these new health system operations capabilities,” said Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences. “These solutions deliver the agility and insight needed to manage and rapidly respond to evolving and potentially chaotic situations.”
Previously, making mass patient transfers out of a unit or facility was inefficient, forcing teams to rely on manual, complex, and time-consuming processes, such as phone calls and written orders, to relocate patients to safer locations or make room to care for emergency victims. The new capabilities address this gap by enabling batch actions by bed management teams so they can manage large numbers of patients effectively and benefit from enhanced situational awareness.
Hospitals and health systems can also dynamically hide or unhide beds in Oracle Health Patient Flow to temporarily create and then remove disaster beds from view during normal operations, offering accurate and flexible bed management.
Within Oracle Health Patient Flow, care teams can assign priorities and determine the order in which patients are moved, as well as see when a bed is assigned at the accepting facility. Nursing unit staff can also specify which beds are prioritized for new patient admissions. With these capabilities, staff can limit administrative tasks and focus on prioritizing the most critical patients during disaster response situations.
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