Nashville General Hospital (NGH), Middle Tennessee’s public safety-net hospital serving Davidson County and Nashville, Tennessee, has officially confirmed the news of implementing Oracle Health CommunityWorks to better support its clinical, financial, and operational needs.
According to certain reports, the stated move will bring forth new centralized and integrated electronic health records (EHR) to unify NGH’s clinical operations across what is a150-bed hospital, as well as across more than 20 outpatient and clinic settings. This includes making it possible for NGH to automate several manual processes and replace disparate legacy systems and devices, all for the overarching purpose of simplifying the clinician and patient experience.
Not just that, Oracle Health CommunityWorks also offers a foundation that can scale as NGH grows and adopts new technologies.
In case you weren’t aware, Oracle Health CommunityWorks happens to be a cloud-based deployment model which is well-equipped to provide you with a comprehensive, integrated user experience for both patients and clinicians. This it does to help these users meet the specific needs of smaller hospital operations, while simultaneously empowering healthcare organizations like NGH to share information between clinics, inpatient and outpatient services, and the emergency department to provide clinicians with complete, up-to-date patient health information. The idea here is to inform treatment decisions and improve care coordination.
“We chose Oracle Health because it offered a more complete and integrated solution versus the other options we considered,” said Melanie Thomas, chief information officer, Nashville General Hospital. “We are replacing several disparate systems that required redundant data entry, disrupted our operations during upgrades, and lacked integration between our inpatient and ambulatory systems. These challenges are now solved with Oracle Health, and it will help us achieve one patient, one record across our facilities. When reviewing all vendor options, we wanted our employees to have a say in the selection. Oracle Health always ranked high across users and teams,”
Another detail worth a mention here is NGH’s plan to deploy Oracle Health Data Intelligence as well. The goal here is to leverage the solution and gain greater understanding of its patient population’s health, operational performance, and financial state.
More on the same would how this powerful and highly secure suite of cloud infrastructure, analytics, and applications is designed to continuously integrate data from a wide range of sources such as clinical, claims, social determinants, pharmacy, and more. Once integrated, the data in question enables users to access in-depth insight across back office and point-of-care workflows.
For instance, by deploying Oracle Health Data Intelligence, the NGH staff can use data from across the ecosystem to focus care efforts on the right patients at the right time, help improve care quality for patients with chronic conditions, and manage costs for patients in value-based care arrangements.
Hold on, there is more, considering we still haven’t touched on NGH’s intention to also adopt Oracle Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS), and as a result, significantly increase patient access to clinical trials. In essence, CTMS will improve productivity by streamlining, automating, and reporting on clinical trial operations data across all study management processes and the progress of patients involved. At present, NGH has chosen to participate in 10 trials over the next year, but having said that, there are plans already in place to ramp up to 30 trials within three years.
“We are excited to work with Nashville General Hospital to help deliver the best possible care to patients and further strengthen our connection to the community,” said Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences. “Nashville General Hospital is part of a growing group of healthcare organizations taking advantage of Oracle Health and Life Sciences’ extensive portfolio of cloud technology to better serve patients, strengthen financial performance, and bridge the gap between clinical research and clinical care.”
