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What are Oracle Health's priorities?, Health tech company lays off 49% of workforce + more · Becker’s Healthcare Digital Health + Health IT

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