"This is a big year for Oracle Health and Life Sciences," says Seema Verma, the company's executive vice president and general manager, as it gets ready to kick off HIMSS25 in Las Vegas.

At Oracle Health's booth (#3221), visitors can see why. They'll learn more about its new electronic health record, Oracle Health Data Intelligence, Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, Oracle Fusion Cloud Application Suite and much more, Verma says.

"Most current EHRs were built in the 1990s and developed around managing payments, not helping patients and providers," she adds. "The industry has simply outgrown them and needs new solutions to new problems like incessant provider burnout."

That's why Oracle Health is focused on "completely reinventing our electronic health record into a system of intelligence that helps health systems drive efficiency, improve clinical care, accelerate innovation, and reduce costs."

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure-based EHR – currently in beta with customers – embeds AI "across the entire clinical workflow to automate processes, deliver insights at the point of care," Verma says. It also helps simplify appointment prep, documentation and follow-up for physicians and staff.

"We are proud to be showcasing our new EHR at HIMSS," says Verma.

At HIMSS25, the company will also be focused on the Oracle Health Clinical AI Agent, which has been hugely beneficial to its clients in their day-to-day work, she says.

"Instead of spending time navigating through drop-down menus or scrolling through screens to find information, practitioners can access critical elements of a patient’s medical history before, during and after an appointment simply by using the Clinical AI Agent. Integrated with Oracle Health’s EHR, [it] provides highly accurate draft notes and next step actions for practitioners to review and approve in just minutes."

Visitors to the Oracle Health booth will also hear more about how the company is helping create a more integrated healthcare ecosystem, says Verma, with the company aiming to bridge the gap between providers and payers with new tools that support claims, prior authorizations and payments.

"We plan to expand this portfolio in 2025 – limiting today’s laborious manual transmission of medical records and help reduce administrative time and costs, speed approval of necessary patient clinical services, and accelerate claims and payment processing," she says, with an aim of enabling "near real-time claim evaluation and processing and support improved clinical decision-making."

Like so many other healthcare organizations, Oracle is keenly interested in embedding "AI and AI agents across our portfolio to make our products easier to use, reduce burden while bringing intelligence to the workflow process," says Verma.

"One example is helping health organizations gain more insights to guide clinical and operational decisions," she explains. "They're overwhelmed by the growing volume of data available to them, and they struggle with how to gather and organize it so it can be used effectively. Oracle Health Data Intelligence enables a broad range of healthcare and government stakeholders to use data from across the healthcare ecosystem without the cost and complexity of trying to integrate disparate data and systems on their own."

And for patients? Making sure they have "ready access to and control over their data is another key area of focus," says Verma. "We continue to prioritize interoperability by making data more available, useful, and secure.

"This includes submitting our application to become a Qualified Health Information Network," she adds. "If designated, it will provide an on-ramp to the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement to allow providers and patients access to the information that's necessary for treatment and care."

Oracle's network is being "designed to support data types that are not typically available in other exchanges, such as X-rays and MRIs," says Verma. "Accelerating exchanges and securely expanding the variety and volume of data available across the healthcare ecosystem is increasingly important to fuel advanced AI capabilities that can help inform care decisions, optimize treatment paths and streamline payment processes."

At HIMSS25, Verma will also take part in a fireside chat with HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf during a Views from the Top session on March 5, at 12:45 p.m. in Level 2, Venetian F.

"We will discuss a number of topics such as Oracle Health and Stargate, as well as the symbiotic relationship between healthcare and life sciences and how they should be more closely linked to benefit the overall wellness of our global population," she says.

"Imagine if deidentified data from EHRs could be used to identify early disease warning signs so that public health officials could respond swiftly and contain outbreaks? And what if clinical trials were faster and easier to conduct because we actively use EHRs to identify patients and make it easier for all providers and patients to participate because we are uniting clinical trials with clinical care? We’ll discuss how we can close such gaps and help patients gain access to the best care options for them."

Oracle Health will be in Booth 3221 at HIMSS25.