Expanded deployment increases patient access
to integrated care, delivers operational efficiencies, and helps
improve care quality
AI-powered Oracle Clinical Digital Assistant
can help reduce administrative tasks, give physicians time back for
their patients and themselves
AUSTIN,
Texas, Oct. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Billings
Clinic-Logan Health, a Montana-based, independent healthcare system,
has selected Oracle Health to provide the unified health system
with a single, integrated health platform. Billings Clinic-Logan
Health chose Oracle Health after input from physicians, their
stakeholders, and employees. The decision was based on a
competitive analysis including implementation timeline, total cost,
impact to both organization's clinicians and patients, and Oracle's
unique capabilities of bringing clinical, patient, enterprise
applications, and data together to help enable health systems to be
more efficient, more secure, and more effective. The Oracle Health
electronic health record (EHR) will be deployed at all Billings
Clinic-Logan Health hospitals and clinics to improve quality,
safety, and service for the health system, providers, and
patients.
For more than two decades, Oracle Health has been providing
Billings Clinic, Montana's largest
health system, with technology support in acute, ambulatory,
revenue cycle, and population health. With Billings Clinic and
Logan Health's unification into a single health system combined
with Oracle Health technology, healthcare will be integrated for
patients in Montana like never
before.
A Better Patient Experience
Whether a patient is
seeking care in Glendive, Montana
or more than 570 miles across the state in Whitefish, clinicians at
hospitals spanning Montana and
northern Wyoming will have access
to their health record with one click in the EHR. This can help
accelerate and improve care by reducing paper record exchanges or
multiple phone calls to different locations for records
transfers.
"As a leader in healthcare technology, artificial intelligence,
and data security, Oracle Health can help us drive innovation to
improve care coordination, enhance patient experiences, and ease
the administrative burden for our caregivers. Oracle Health has the
unique opportunity to build a vibrant ecosystem to fully support
Billings Clinic-Logan Health and regional facilities across
Montana and surrounding states,"
said Chief Information Officer Justin
Ott, Billings Clinic-Logan Health. "We believe Oracle Health
is the best choice for our patients, our clinicians and business
functions, and our unified health system; and that it will serve
our needs well into the future. Oracle Health is committed to the
continued innovation and enhancements of products to elevate
clinical excellence in our vast region."
Billings Clinic-Logan Health chose to expand its Oracle Health
footprint and replace its existing Meditech deployment at all Logan
Health sites after the competitive analysis and feedback revealed
Oracle could provide the support needed for the health system today
and into the future. Discussions were conducted with multiple
health technology vendors. After thorough considerations in
longevity and innovation, Billings Clinic-Logan Health is committed
to strengthening and aligning their organizational goals with
Oracle Health, which can provide a unique health ecosystem to fully
support their hospitals and regional remote facilities.
A Better Clinician & Health System
Experience
Using integrated technology across the entire
health system, clinicians at Billings Clinic-Logan Health will be
able to rely on real-time information from a new or existing
patient's medical history, including prior clinical visits and
treatments and pharmacy records, by simply opening the patient's
health record. This interconnection of patient information will
allow the health system to expand the breadth and depth of primary
and specialty care provided to patients, connect rural trauma and
emergency transport programs, more effectively address diversity
and health disparities including underserved and tribal
populations, and enhance recruitment and retention of physicians,
nurses, and other key staff.
Additionally, physicians at Billings Clinic-Logan Health will
have access to an AI-powered Oracle Clinical Digital
Assistant which interprets and records key elements of the
physician-patient encounter, accurately inputs a draft note into
the Oracle Health EHR, and enables the physician to quickly review
and approve the clinical documentation produced. Oracle
Clinical Digital Assistant transforms the doctor-patient experience
by reducing the time doctors spend interacting with their laptops
and increasing the time they spend interacting with their
patients.
"Like many healthcare organizations across the country, Billings
Clinic-Logan Health turned to Oracle Health to better serve its
patients, improve its operational performance, and enhance its
clinical team's experience," said Seema
Verma, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle
Health and Life Sciences. "Oracle Health's comprehensive suite of
healthcare technology will help Billings Clinic-Logan Health solve
some of its biggest challenges and enable its caregivers to spend
less time on process and paperwork and more time on the things that
matter most, their patients."
To learn more about how customers, including Billings
Clinic-Logan Health, are using Oracle, join the team at Oracle
Health Summit in Nashville on
Oct. 29-30, 2024. This event is
bringing together global healthcare leaders to discuss how to
tackle industrywide challenges and apply new innovations.
About Billings Clinic – Logan Health
Billings Clinic
and Logan Health are united as one, Montana-based, independent health care system
focused on keeping patients and families close to home and
connecting care in communities throughout the region. The unified
health system serves an area that includes Montana, northern Wyoming and the western Dakotas and is
governed by a board of community members and medical professionals.
It encompasses 25 hospitals, which includes 16 regional
partnerships with critical access hospitals and clinics. More than
9,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians and advanced practice
providers practicing in 80 specialties working together to provide
patients and their families with a positive, proactive,
patient-centered experience through innovative and effective
approaches to high quality, safe health care. The health care
system has deep commitments to complex care, local access,
innovation and health care education. By uniting the two
organizations, each of which have served Montana and the surrounding region for more
than 100 years, Billings Clinic and Logan Health are better
together and better positioned to adapt to the rapidly changing
health care environment, with a commitment to sustaining and
growing services to meet the needs of Montana and Wyoming families.
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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