Oracle Health’s AI-Powered EHR Achieves ONC Certification & EPCS Compliance

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Most Important Today

• ★ Key Insights and Perspectives from the eHealth Exchange Annual Meeting — John Lynn (20 Nov 2025) A roundup from eHealth Exchange’s annual meeting highlights cross-industry momentum on health data sharing and interoperability, with stakeholders from public health, providers, and payers discussing progress and next steps.
  Why It Matters: Signals where national interoperability and data exchange are headed, informing roadmap decisions on interfaces, compliance, and governance to lower integration costs and improve care coordination.
• ★ Foundation Health Secures $20M Series A to Scale AI-Powered Infrastructure for Pharmacy Operations, Care Coordination, and Direct-to-Patient Delivery — Healthcare IT News (20 Nov 2025) Funding will expand the company’s AI pharmacist assistant and infrastructure across pharmacy operations and patient communication, with claims of reducing manual workflows by up to 75%.
  Why It Matters: Automating prior auths and pharmacy workflows can unlock measurable ROI and faster therapy starts—provided integrations with EHRs, PBMs, and payers are reliable and compliant.
• ★ ŌURA Raises Over $900M to Accelerate Global Expansion and Health Innovation — Healthcare IT News (20 Nov 2025) Oura’s new funding, led by Fidelity, underscores rapid growth of the smart ring and its positioning in preventive health and wellness markets.
  Why It Matters: Consumer wearables at scale create opportunities for population health and clinical research—but also raise data governance, integration, and reimbursement questions for health systems.

EHR Vendor Releases / Sales

• ★ Oracle Health’s AI-Powered EHR Achieves ONC Certification & EPCS Compliance — Jasmine Pennic (20 Nov 2025) Oracle Health has announced a major breakthrough with its next-generation Electronic Health Record (EHR), which is now certified and available for adoption by ambulatory customers in the U.S.
  Why It Matters: Oracle Health’s newly certified, AI-native EHR matters to Healthcare CIOs because it signals a real step-change in clinician efficiency, revenue protection, and long-term platform strategy. With ONC certification and EPCS compliance removing adoption risk, the system’s voice-first workflows, embedded clinical intelligence, and open agent architecture promise to cut administrative burden, reduce burnout, streamline payer interactions, and support a more modern, interoperable tech stack. In short, it introduces credible competitive pressure to Epic, offers measurable ROI through automation, and forces every CIO to reassess their 3–5 year EHR modernization roadmap.
• ★ How an Echocardiogram Went From 12 Clicks to Zero with Wellsheet — Colin Hung (19 Nov 2025) Ascension’s Dr. Max Solano describes how Wellsheet surfaces key results directly in context, eliminating multi-click hunts in the EHR for items like echocardiograms.
  Why It Matters: EHR UX improvements that anticipate clinician intent reduce cognitive load, boost documentation quality, and can reclaim minutes per encounter—adding up to meaningful ROI.

Hospital Implementations

• ★ Northwell Health launches AI-powered primary care platform — Naomi Diaz (20 Nov 2025) Northwell and K Health launched a 24/7 virtual primary care service that uses K Health’s clinical-grade AI for triage and same-day access, expanding digital front door capacity across New York.
  Why It Matters: Offers a scalable way to absorb demand, reduce leakage, and route patients to the right setting—provided it integrates tightly with scheduling, the EHR, and payer workflows.
• ★ Mercy, Microsoft partnership revives ‘invisible care’ — Naomi Diaz (20 Nov 2025) Mercy is using Microsoft’s generative AI to reduce clinician administrative burden and return time to patient care—what leaders describe as “invisible care.”
  Why It Matters: Ambient AI and workflow automation can improve clinician experience and throughput, but must be deployed with strong guardrails for safety, privacy, and measurement of quality outcomes.

Other Healthcare Technology

• ★ Healthcare Cloud Hosting and Innovation at Rackspace — John Lynn (19 Nov 2025) Rackspace outlines its healthcare focus and role hosting major EHR environments, highlighting hybrid-cloud options and managed services for security and scale.
  Why It Matters: Managed cloud strategies can speed upgrades and reduce infrastructure risk—so long as SLAs, cost controls, and security responsibilities are clearly defined.

Why It Matters — A Healthcare Leader’s Perspective

Today’s news blends strategic interoperability momentum with practical AI deployments and sizable funding that will shape the digital front door and data ecosystem. CIOs should prioritize tight integration (EHR, scheduling, PBM/payer), robust privacy and model governance for AI, and clear ROI metrics tied to clinician time saved and patient access. Infrastructure partnerships and consumer data influx from wearables will demand disciplined data governance and cost transparency to ensure value at scale.