On Day 1 (September 9, 2025) of the Oracle Health & Life Sciences Summit in Orlando, Seema Verma unveiled Oracle’s boldest play yet: an AI-first EHR built natively on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, independent of legacy Cerner code. The platform promises embedded AI agents, a semantic database, and seamless workflows that span clinical care, payer rules, and even clinical trials.
The message was clear: Oracle is not layering AI onto old systems—it’s rebuilding the core.
Day 1 Highlights
- AI-First EHR Launch: Powered by a semantic database and Knowledge Graph for live, evergreen clinical and payer data.
- Agentic AI in Action: Ambient AI agents demoed auto-coding, trial recruitment, billing suggestions, and care gap detection.
- Integration Roadmap: Clinical trials suite targeted for full EHR integration by 2027, ending siloed research platforms.
- Partner Showcase: Infosys, TCS, and others demonstrated smart diagnostics, trial acceleration, and precision care powered by AI.
- Theme Delivered: “AI in Action” wasn’t just branding—attendees engaged with live EHR and OCI demos across clinical and operational use cases.
An IT Executive’s Take
From the IT Executive’s chair, the keynote was aspirational and ambitious—but not comprehensive.
Yes, AI agents that can code visits, match patients to trials, and prompt next best actions represent progress. But Oracle’s Achilles heel remains its Revenue Cycle suite. The demos highlighted payer rules integration, yet failed to address long-standing customer frustrations:
- Fragmented workflows across scheduling, registration, and billing.
- Opaque denial management tools.
- Lack of streamlined patient financial engagement.
Bottom line: If Oracle doesn’t accelerate a Revenue Cycle overhaul—beyond bolt-on AI assistance—health systems will still find themselves propping up core financial operations with third-party tools.
As one IT Executive quipped in the hallway: “AI won’t fix revenue cycle products from the early 2000s.” Perhaps (hopefully), we’ll hear more later in the week . . . ?
Why It Matters
For IT and finance leaders alike, clinical innovation is welcome—but financial viability is table stakes. Oracle must pair its AI-first EHR with a credible, end-to-end Revenue Cycle redesign to keep its promise of an integrated, modern healthcare platform. Otherwise, hospitals may adopt the new AI features but keep looking elsewhere for stable, scalable revenue cycle solutions.
