AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Nine months
ago, the U.S. government launched an ambitious project to
accelerate the development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines,
therapeutics and diagnostic testing. To aid in that effort, Oracle
built a National Electronic Health Records (EHR) Database plus a
suite of Public Health Management Applications to help U.S. public
health agencies and healthcare providers collect and analyze data
related to COVID-19. Oracle's National EHR system enables our
public health officials to have access to up to the minute data as
to how many people have been vaccinated in New York City or Palo Alto, or anywhere in the
U.S. This real-time nationwide view of COVID-19 healthcare data is
not possible with our existing fragmented provider based EHR
systems.
The Oracle National EHR Database and Public Health Management
Applications were first used in June of this year to register and
directly communicate with over 500,000 people who volunteered
to participate in clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines and
therapeutics. By working collaboratively with the CDC and the U.S.
Department of Defense during the pandemic, Oracle was able to
extend the capabilities of the Public Health Management
Applications Suite to help manage nationwide distribution and to
collect patient data around COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
Patient
Monitoring
The Oracle
Public Health Management System makes it easy for every person
who receives a COVID-19 vaccination to use a smartphone or a
computer to report side effects, such as injection site pain or a
headache. That means every patient receiving a COVID-19 vaccine can
directly communicate with healthcare professionals who will track
all vaccine side effects and adverse events for the first days,
weeks, and months after injection. Collecting this safety data will
help medical professionals better understand how different patients
respond to different vaccines—and the system will notify a
physician in the rare event of a patient exhibiting a serious
adverse reaction to a vaccine.
Supporting Large-Scale Vaccination Data and
Distribution
Now that safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines are
starting to be distributed, managing this complex logistical
process quickly and efficiently is imperative; lives literally
depend on it. Oracle's Public Health Management System's new
Provider Order Portal was built specifically for the U.S.
government and will enable authorized federal suppliers to order
multiple vaccines and enable vaccine providers to manage inventory
and fulfill orders based on availability. Providers will also be
able to manage deliveries and ensure receipt of each shipment meets
each vaccine's specific requirements, such as different
temperatures for cold storage. The system will also track returns
and redistribution to minimize wastage.
National Electronic Health Records Cloud
The Oracle
National EHR Cloud will serve as the CDC's central data repository
for all vaccination data in the U.S. This "national clearing house"
system will receive data from all U.S. jurisdictions administering
vaccinations. Anonymized vaccination data (a version of the data
where all patient names and identifiers have been removed to
protect patient privacy) will be used for analysis and reporting by
authorized agencies and organizations.
Building the Future of Healthcare Systems
Last month,
in partnership with the Tony Blair Institute, the exact same Oracle
National EHR Cloud System was used to manage the distribution of
Yellow Fever Vaccine in Africa.
Over 70,000 people in Ghana were
vaccinated during the first week of the program. We are currently
in discussions with dozens of countries around the world to adopt
Oracle's Public Health Management Applications Suite to modernize
their national public health infrastructure and thus enable
efficient COVID-19 vaccine distribution, therapeutic
monitoring and diagnostic testing.
Oracle's National EHR Cloud and Public Health Applications can
be used to manage vaccination programs, therapeutics distribution
and diagnostic testing for any disease anywhere in the world—this
is just the beginning.
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