EHRs need to be interoperable, secure and automated for healthcare to thrive, according to Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences.
Here are five EHR notes from her Dec. 9 blog post on the future of healthcare:
1. New EHR applications can “comb through the latest clinical research in response to physician queries and source and summarize the information to help physicians identify the latest treatment options with relative ease.”
2. Providers can get the whole view of a patient only via interoperable EHRs that let them call up health records “regardless of where care was obtained.”
3. Healthcare organizations are starting to migrate EHRs to cloud platforms with encrypted data and regular cybersecurity updates and patches.
4. Next-generation EHRs include generative AI-powered “agentic voice recognition technology” to record medical appointments and draft notes for the EHR, giving providers more face time with patients.
5. Pharmaceutical companies are “mining data in EHRs used by hundreds or thousands of providers” to find qualified patients for clinical trials.
