Oracle Announces Oracle Health Management Platform

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – September 21, 2010) – ORACLE OPENWORLD — Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)

News Facts

• Oracle today announced the launch of the Oracle Health Management Platform, a complete, open and integrated suite of unified solutions, combined with a framework on which providers and payors can build secure applications and services. This Platform can help to reduce administrative costs, gain insight into operations and patient outcomes, and enable more effective and secure interactions with patients, sales teams and enrolled members.
• The Oracle Health Management Platform provides organizations with validated and integrated solutions for business intelligence, interoperability, relationship management, and operations management. 
• Developed with an industry-tailored, hot-pluggable architecture, the Oracle Health Management Platform — which includes Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications — helps provider and payor organizations support immediate business requirements today while providing a clear, integrated framework to which they can add additional applications as business requirements change.
• The platform supports a broad range of healthcare applications and functions, including patient discharge management, provider referral analysis, patient outreach and relationship management, member enrollment and relationship management, medications reconciliation, chronic disease management and Thin Electronic Health Records.
• Oracle Health Management Platform enables providers and payors to expand interaction with patients and enhance care coordination. It also provides a more integrated foundation to support the diverse and ever-changing requirements of today’s health industry organizations.

Supporting Quotes

• “Healthcare providers and payors are looking for ways to extend their interaction with patients and members beyond the walls of healthcare facilities to drive more effective and cost-efficient care,” said Lynne A. Dunbrack, Program Director, Connected Health IT Strategies, IDC Health Insights. “To achieve this goal, they require flexible IT frameworks and integrated platforms that give them the ability to deploy new applications quickly, as needed to meet changing demand. Oracle Health Management Platform delivers a scalable foundation that supports efforts to reduce operational costs and enable accountable care.”
• “To fulfill the potential of healthcare reform initiatives and citizen health management, today’s healthcare industry requires greater levels of transparency and insight across the healthcare continuum to enable better care coordination and improved outcomes at lower costs,” said Marc Perlman, Global Vice President for Healthcare and Life Sciences, Oracle Healthcare. “Oracle Health Management Platform combines Oracle’s technology and services offerings to reduce costs while advancing provider and payor efforts to implement accountable care infrastructures, and improve patient interactions, collaboration, and outcomes.” 

Supporting Resources

• Oracle in Healthcare
• Follow Oracle Health Sciences on Twitter
• Join the Oracle Health Sciences Community on Facebook

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