Nashville General Hospital (NGH), the public hospital in Middle Tennessee serving Davidson County and Nashville, Tennessee, uses Oracle Health Community Works to better meet its clinical, financial and operational needs. Unifying its clinical operations with new centralized, integrated electronic health records (EHRs) across the 150-bed hospital and more than 20 outpatient and clinical settings allows NGH to automate several manual processes and replace existing systems and disparate existing devices, thus simplifying the work of the clinician and the patient. experience. Oracle Health CommunityWorks also provides a foundation that can scale as NGH grows and adopts new technologies, such as Oracle Health Data Intelligence and Oracle Clinical Trial Management System.
“We chose Oracle Health because it offered a more comprehensive and integrated solution compared to other options we considered,” said Melanie Thomas, chief information officer of Nashville General Hospital. “We were replacing multiple disparate systems that required redundant data entry, disrupted our operations during upgrades, and lacked integration between our inpatient and outpatient systems. These challenges are now solved with Oracle Health, and it will help us achieve one patient, one record across all of our facilities. When reviewing all vendor options, we wanted our employees to have a say in the selection. Oracle Health has consistently ranked well with users and teams, and go-live has been smooth.
Oracle Health CommunityWorks is a cloud-based deployment model that provides a comprehensive, integrated user experience for patients and clinicians to meet the specific needs of small hospital operations. It allows healthcare organizations like NGH to share information between clinics, inpatient and outpatient departments, and the emergency department to provide clinicians with comprehensive and up-to-date patient health information, helping to inform treatment decisions and improve care coordination.
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NGH also plans to deploy Oracle Health Data Intelligence to better understand the health of its patient population, as well as its operational and financial performance. The powerful and highly secure suite of cloud infrastructure, analytics and applications continuously integrates data from a wide range of sources (clinics, claims, social determinants, pharmacy, etc.) to provide insights into back office and point-of-service workflow. With Oracle Health Data Intelligence, NGH staff can use data from across the ecosystem to focus care efforts on the right patients at the right time, help improve the quality of care for patients with chronic conditions, and manage patient costs in value-based care. provisions.
NGH also plans to significantly increase patient access to clinical trials and will adopt Oracle Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) Cloud Service to advance this effort. CTMS will help improve productivity by streamlining, automating and reporting clinical trial operations data across all study management processes and the progress of the patients involved. NGH has chosen to participate in 10 trials over the next year and plans to increase to 30 trials within three years.
“We are excited to work with Nashville General Hospital to help provide the best possible patient care and further strengthen our ties to the community,” said Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences. “Nashville General Hospital is part of a growing group of healthcare organizations taking advantage of Oracle Health and Life Sciences’ broad portfolio of cloud technologies to better serve patients, strengthen financial performance and close the gap between clinical research and clinical care.