When Oracle’s new EHR platform was announced, it was clear this wasn’t just a repackaging of legacy systems—it’s a ground-up redesign. For healthcare IT leaders, this signals a pivotal moment that will shape how technology supports clinicians, streamlines operations, and safeguards patient data for years to come.
CereCore is proud to be part of this transformation as a member of the Oracle Health Partner Network. Our teams are working closely with clients to prepare for what’s next—whether that means evaluating workflows, offloading support tasks, or planning for advanced EHR capabilities.
For healthcare IT leaders, this signals a pivotal moment. As an example, primary care settings such as Billings Clinic are already using the reimagined EHR and have expanded its use to 30 hospitals after a value analysis.
Ambient listening that goes beyond notes: it’s predictive. While many companies are racing to build tools that listen and generate patient notes, that’s only the first step in achieving true workflow automation that will provide time-savings and clinician satisfaction. Oracle’s ambient listening technology not only drafts notes but also tees up clinical orders for physician review and signature. More importantly, it learns provider practice patterns to anticipate and predict ordering habits — capability long requested by front-line clinicians. The organizations in the US already benefiting from the solution have seen on average a 30 percent reduction in daily documentation time.
Action to Take: At CereCore we are spending time with clients preparing for advanced use of their EHR – this can look like evaluating workflows, data flow, or offloading support and AMS tasks so that internal teams can focus on innovation.
The nursing-focused AI technology of Oracle Health has resonated strongly in the market. At the Oracle Health Summit, Tara Titus, MBA, BSN, RN, NI-BC, demonstrated the Clinical AI Agent that’s focused on functionality specifically for nurses. At BayCare Health System, 75 nurses and medical assistants are already using voice technology to chart in real time. This example and the many others shown by Oracle demonstrate a clear goal of reshaping the industry from the inside out by solving nursing documentation.
Action to Take: Involve nurses early in workflow design and AI use case development. Their clinical insight can help ensure workflows are truly aligned with patient care needs. From our experience in hundreds of implementation and optimization projects, this approach consistently leads to better outcomes, including more time for bedside care, improved charge capture, streamlined documentation, and smoother transitions.
One of the most reassuring announcements for health systems has been that Oracle Health is not requiring costly migrations to transition to Oracle Health Patient Accounting or the new EHR. Instead, features will roll out on existing systems (including AI features), supported by a semantic layer designed to simplify the migration process. While dates and timelines were not finalized, the approach reflects Oracle Health’s effort to reduce the financial burden often associated with major EHR transitions.
Action to Take: Start with a thorough assessment of your current workflows and EHR implementation so that you can more easily roadmap your way into taking advantage of newer features as they are rolled out. Of particular interest may be AI features that run as a sidecar overlay on Millennium supporting phased rollouts of migration.
The roadmap extends far beyond core clinical documentation. Oracle Health previewed capabilities such as prior authorization approval prediction, automated coding, patient history summarization, and even conversational search across medical records. And yes, there was even a hint that Citrix may soon be a thing of the past. Some reports show that by adding AI, your organization can uncover insights to support better care across the care continuum. It’s a new era for electronic health records and Oracle Health is all in on the direction.
Action to Take: Establish governance practices and foundational policies to ensure appropriate use of predictive approvals, especially for patient safety and after-hours provider workflows. Align these practices with the core competencies of your internal team, and thoughtfully delegate areas where a trusted partner can add value. It's important to consider the potential of partnering for support services as a way to enable acceleration of advanced technology implementation by offloading resource burden and increasing capacity for driving adoption.
With thousands of engineers working on these projects, Oracle Health’s ambition is clear: create a system that augments provider decision-making, connects fragmented data points, and frees clinicians to focus on patients rather than technology.
Oracle Health’s fresh approach suggests a deliberate shift; one aimed at eliminating workflow inefficiencies, added costs, and security risks that often stem from bolted-on solutions and legacy systems. Yet, progress will require more than technology alone. Industry headwinds remain, and organizations must make pragmatic decisions about core competencies to ensure measurable outcomes. As health systems navigate this new path, CereCore is prepared to serve as a trusted partner bringing operational insight and technical expertise to help customers move forward confidently with Oracle Health.