Huntsville Hospital Health System Expands Use of Oracle Health to Improve Patient Care
Austin, Texas – March 19, 2025 – Huntsville Hospital Health System (HH Health), a leading non-profit health system, is broadening its collaboration with Oracle Health. The goal is to enhance patient care, speed up innovation, and boost operational efficiency across its network. By implementing the Oracle Health Foundation electronic health record (EHR) across all facilities and deploying Oracle Health Data Intelligence, HH Health aims to gain a deeper understanding of its patient population’s health and optimize its financial performance.
HH Health provides care for residents in northern Alabama and southern Tennessee, with nearly 20,000 employees across various physician practices, clinics, and 14 community-based hospitals. Serving over 100,000 inpatients and more than 1 million outpatient procedures annually, HH Health sought to improve staff efficiency, maintain consistent care quality, and improve the patient and provider experience.
To achieve these goals, HH Health plans to standardize on Oracle Health’s EHR. This will help coordinate care and ensure consistent experiences for patients and providers across different facilities. The EHR has already been successfully launched at Helen Keller Hospital and Red Bay Hospital and is currently in use at 41 physician practices and clinics. Clinicians at Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville Hospital for Women & Children, and Madison Hospital have also been using the system since 2019, with further implementations planned in the coming years.
“As we continue to connect and grow the hospitals across our region, we’ve selected Oracle Health as our primary healthcare technology collaborator to help us fulfill our vision of implementing an integrated patient chart to add to the quality of care, improve patient safety, and enhance continuity of care across our health system,” said Rick Corn, vice president and chief information officer, Huntsville Hospital Health System.
Corn added, “Our community-based hospitals are a necessary resource to address the unique challenges within their patient populations, many located in rural and underserved areas. This collaboration helps to unify our network, will standardize technology, and allows us to more easily adopt innovative technologies so our facilities can function as one and remain valuable resources to each of their communities.”
The implementation of Oracle Health technology aims to integrate the network so that caregivers and staff can easily and efficiently manage patient health regardless of which HH Health facility a patient visits. The EHR offers clinicians a consistent user experience and a single patient history, simplifying documentation processes, improving care decisions, and streamlining patient follow-up.
HH Health will also take advantage of Oracle Health Data Intelligence, which is slated for implementation later this year. This system aims to maximize the value of the health system’s data to support innovation, optimize care plans, enhance patient engagement, and increase reimbursements. Built on the security, performance, and scalability of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Health Data Intelligence is an EHR-agnostic suite of cloud infrastructure, analytics, and applications. The suite enables a broad range of healthcare and government stakeholders to leverage data from across the healthcare ecosystem without the complexities and costs associated with integrating multiple data systems.
Oracle Health Data Intelligence offers a fully managed intelligent data lake powered by AI and data analytics. It is designed for a wide range of use cases, including helping providers develop better population health strategies and optimizing value-based care, as well as supporting academic medical centers in accelerating research and improving outcomes. The system continuously integrates patient data from a variety of sources including clinical records, claims, revenue cycles, social determinants, and pharmacy data to provide insights across back-office and point-of-care workflows. This offers providers and policymakers a more comprehensive view of patients and populations to benefit from suggestions for optimized care and financial performance.
“HH Health’s strategic choice to expand its long-standing relationship with Oracle Health speaks volumes about the shared vision, trust, and success we have achieved over the years,” said Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences.
Verma explained how “Collaborating closely with customers like HH Health is critical as we evolve our technology to better meet the needs of clinicians and patients.”
To learn more about Oracle’s advancements in healthcare, visit https://www.oracle.com/health/.
About Huntsville Hospital Health System Huntsville Hospital Health System is a network of community, not-for-profit hospitals which serve as the primary provider of healthcare services to over 1.5 million people in northern Alabama and southern Tennessee. The Health System has hospitals and related facilities in multiple locations.
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