- This is Naomi Diaz
with the Becker's Digital Health Podcast.
Here is your daily industry news briefing
for today, May 8th.
First, cybersecurity, AI
and moving beyond just EHRs are top
priorities for Oracle Health.
Its leader told the Nashville Bus Business Journal,
Oracle Health sees itself as a center
of the healthcare ecosystem,
which is a big reason parent company Oracle plans to move
to Nashville, a Center for Healthcare and Innovation.
Oracle Health gm SMA Verma said in the May 2nd story,
she said, quote, obviously the electronic health record is
our core, but it is bringing all of those pieces together,
allowing data to flow between public health payers,
researchers, and providers,
and having that data flow in a very secure way.
She told the publication, Ms.
Verma, who was appointed to leave the company formally known
as Cerner in December,
expressed a similar sentiment at the March HIMSS Health IT
conference covered by Becker's.
She said, quote, Oracle Health is not just an EHR company.
She cited other offerings including healthcare data
intelligence, a clinical documentation tool,
and military grade cybersecurity.
While AI is not new to Oracle,
the company is now applying it to healthcare.
Vis Verma told the business journal, she said quote,
to get rid of a lot of the manual effort
that we see across the healthcare system.
That's another thing that I would say is a key focus for us.
Second digital health startup ENT has launched a new virtual
care platform at one
of the company's two founding health systems.
ENT formed 2022 via partnership
between Metro Health System and Muse Health.
Rolled out virtual care May 6th to Metro Health Patient ent,
which built its applications into Epic
and MyChart offers virtual urgent care,
same day primary care,
and scheduled primary care throughout its nationwide team
of virtual providers.
Ava Tenin. Metro Health also provides same day.
Prescription delivery services are built
through Metro Health and covered by insurance.
Ava Ten's, CEO Michael Dalton stated that expanding
and extending its partners clinical offerings will help them
to compete against new market entrant.
Later this year, Aviant plans to start
to deliver de delivering virtual care
to muse health patients
and launch a digital health platform
for virtual specialty care access,
clinical de decision support,
and features to boost the patient experience
and patient insights.
Third, biotech company Q Health is enacting a new cost
cutting strategy that will lead to the termination
of 230 employees constituting for 49% of its workforce
or according to documents filed
with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Q Health said the move was made in a bit
to lower its cost framework
and enhance its operational effectiveness.
Q Health located in San Diego is known
for its rapid COVID-19 test.
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