Oracle, Deloitte Announce Expanded Digital Health Transformation Offerings

Deloitte and Oracle announced expanded technology offerings focused on supporting patient-driven, digitally-enabled healthcare delivery this week at HIMSS 2023. 

The collaboration expands Deloitte’s operating system for healthcare to include implementation, operations, and advisory services for Oracle through Deloitte Health – Oracle Accelerated. 

Deloitte Health – Oracle Accelerated, according to the press release, is designed to help healthcare organizations navigate the industry-wide shift from reactive care to proactive wellness that is being driven by patient demand and healthcare consumerism.  

The press release indicates that throughout this transition, healthcare delivery must focus on meeting patients where they are using technology to overcome common industry challenges, such as workflow optimization and workforce issues. 

"As health care continues to shift toward patient-driven, wellness care, we believe it's important to align our offerings with the future of health care, and to lead our Oracle clients toward increasing degrees of digital transformation and human-centric, intelligent care delivery," said Hashim Simjee, global Oracle health care leader, and principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP, in the press release. "Our goal is to empower consumers to control their own health care journeys while giving providers the means to deliver both better human and financial outcomes." 

The collaboration is set to leverage Deloitte’s healthcare industry expertise alongside Oracle’s technology portfolio to advance five priority initiatives: 

• modernizing electronic health records (EHRs) by assisting healthcare organizations as they implement and operate EHR platforms;
• rationalizing and enabling cloud evolution by migrating clients to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI); 
• improving performance and automating workflows by leveraging Deloitte’s capabilities, OCI, and data to enhance operational and clinical workflows;
• realizing business and operations efficiencies by integrating enterprise resource planning, clinical, and human resources data to generate operational insights; 
• driving AI-powered Insights and actions by using optimized consumer and provider workflows to create ‘intelligent’ health systems. 

The press release states that some of these initiatives are already being undertaken via the use Deloitte Health – Oracle Accelerated within one health system, the name of which was not listed. 

"Collaboration across the entire ecosystem will be critical to making health care more efficient, holistic, accessible and equitable," said Stephanie Trunzo, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Health.