Oracle Helps Health Systems Optimize Management of Emergency Situations
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Oracle Health has unveiled new emergency management capabilities in its health system operations suite, designed to help hospitals manage crisis situations more effectively. The enhanced features include improvements to Oracle Health Patient Flow, Clinical Operations Whiteboard, Transfer Center, and Command Center Dashboard.
The update focuses on streamlining mass patient transfers, bed management, and evacuation planning, allowing healthcare organizations to respond rapidly to emergency situations. Key improvements include batch action capabilities for bed management teams and dynamic bed visibility management. The new features will be available to existing health systems operations customers at no additional cost.
The development was done in collaboration with MedStar Health and BayCare Health, addressing previous inefficiencies in mass patient transfers that relied on manual processes. The enhanced system allows care teams to prioritize patient movements and maintain better situational awareness during crisis management.
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- New features offered at no additional cost to existing customers
- Partnership with major healthcare providers MedStar Health and BayCare Health
- Enhanced operational efficiency in emergency management
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New capabilities in Oracle's health system operations suite give hospitals the agility to make fast, effective decisions to support patients and staff during traumatic events
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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