Launches Autonomous Shield initiative to help
customers migrate to a comprehensive EHR and Cloud Infrastructure
solution that reduces risk and increases system performance
More than 1,000 Oracle Health EHR customers
already benefitting from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's advanced
automation and security
NASHVILLE, Tenn.,
April 23,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Health Summit --
In the nearly two years since the Cerner acquisition, Oracle has
invested tens of thousands of engineering hours and millions of
dollars to enhance its core clinical applications and improve
cybersecurity for its customers in the healthcare industry. As part
of this investment, Oracle has helped more than 1,000 Oracle
Health EHR customers dramatically strengthen their defenses
against cybercrime by supporting their migration to Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure (OCI). Customers that migrated to OCI also
reported performance gains of 20 to 60%. Today, Oracle is expanding
its commitment to create a safer and more secure healthcare
ecosystem by launching the Autonomous Shield initiative to simplify
and accelerate Oracle Health EHR migrations to OCI at no additional
cost.
Cloud computing delivers consistent innovation, so customers
have the latest product features and the most up-to-date security
capabilities. OCI automatically applies fixes to address a
constantly changing cyber-terror landscape. This enables healthcare
organizations to rely on Oracle's real-time threat detection and
monitoring, autonomous systems, and team of experts to help keep
their networks safe. In turn, healthcare organizations can focus on
what they do best – making people healthier. The constant
innovation made possible with cloud computing, also enables
customers to benefit from breakthrough AI technologies that can
make their jobs easier and enhance patient experiences, such as the
Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant.
"Recent events in healthcare have exploited vulnerabilities
facing health systems around the world. Now more than ever, it's
important for health systems to choose companies like Oracle that
make security simple – easy to use, deploy, and operate," said
Kemal Erkan, chief executive officer
and president, United Medical. "Our transition to Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure has been seamless and gives us more confidence in
the performance and security of our technology."
According to a report from the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS), the healthcare industry has seen a 239%
increase in large breaches involving hacking and a 278% increase in
ransomware reported in the past four years. Even in the face of
this growing threat, healthcare providers only spend about 8% of
their IT budgets on security, well below the cross-industry
average.
"Cyberattacks represent an imminent and existential threat to
healthcare worldwide," said Seema
Verma, executive vice president and general manager of
Oracle Health and Life Sciences. "Our top priority is helping to
keep our customers and their patients safe from the debilitating
impacts of cyber-terrorism. With our clinical applications running
on OCI, we provide our customers – big and small – with the same
military-grade security that is used to protect the most sensitive
data at some of the largest and most sophisticated businesses,
national defense agencies, and governments around the world."
The Oracle Autonomous Shield initiative simplifies Oracle Health
EHR customer migrations to OCI with a clear and proven methodology
that includes:
- Built-in security best practices
- Solution architecture development
- Application migration
- Access to a team of experts
- Go-live support
To learn more, join the Oracle Health Summit livestream
featuring Oracle chairman and CTO Larry
Ellison and Senator Bill
Frist, Founder, Frist Cressey Ventures, today at 1:30 –
2:30 CT at
https://www.linkedin.com/events/thefutureofhealthcare7186453995970854912/
Building on Oracle's legacy of protecting the world's most
important data
OCI can better equip customers to prevent,
detect, and respond to security concerns because it is:
- Automated and effective - Oracle is the only healthcare
technology provider that uses autonomous databases and operating
systems to automatically patch and protect against the latest
vulnerabilities. This helps eliminate cybersecurity's biggest
weakness – human error and delay.
- Secure from the ground up - Starting from the physical
infrastructure, OCI isolates itself and customers from one another
to reduce avenues of attack. Oracle is unique in offering not only
choice in cloud location, but also a staffing and governance model
to address compliance requirements.
- Secure by default - OCI provides always-on data
encryption and on-by-default multi-factor authentication, activity
auditing, and DDoS protection, so patient data, business
transactions, and sensitive information can be protected. Our data
encryption solutions incorporate industry-leading 256-bit AES
encryption for data at rest and in transit.
- Built to deliver more control and greater protection -
Oracle makes it easier for healthcare organizations to control
access to their systems, enforcing least privilege access by
default. OCI also helps customers pinpoint potential
vulnerabilities and makes timely remediation recommendations to
help ensure that essential healthcare systems stay up and
running.
"The Oracle Autonomous Database completely automates
provisioning, management, tuning, and upgrade processes of database
instances without any downtime," said Alexei Balaganski, lead
analyst, KuppingerCole Analysts. "For healthcare organizations this
substantially increases security and compliance of sensitive data
and makes a compelling argument for moving this data to the Oracle
Cloud."
Protecting patients and the health networks from
cybercrime
The recent attack on Change Healthcare was a
wake-up call that more needs to be done to protect the industry
from increasingly savvy cybercriminals. Although Oracle systems
were not involved, Oracle security experts were able to support
companies impacted by the attack.
Oracle diverted the traffic of several large health networks
that used Change Healthcare as a payment gateway to other gateways
in a matter of days. Since Oracle rerouted their traffic, these
networks have avoided payment disruptions on more than $3 billion in claims.
Additional Resources
- Read about the Oracle Health EHR Platform
- Learn more about OCI Security
- Read about Oracle's cloud security services
- Learn more about Oracle Autonomous Database
About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of
applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle
Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit
us at www.oracle.com.
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