In order to generate a more thorough electronic health record of a patient's medical history, Seamless Exchange obtains, combines, and deduplicates health data from various sources, even if treatment was taken from several providers

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University of Missouri Health Care selects Oracle Health Seamless Exchange to deliver more accurate and extensive view of patient’s health history. (Credit: Peter Kaminski from San Francisco, California, USA/Wikimedia Commons)

The University of Missouri Health Care (MU Health Care) has selected Oracle Health Seamless Exchange to deliver its care providers a more accurate and extensive view of a patient’s health history to enhance safety and inform treatment plans.

In order to generate a more thorough electronic health record (EHR) of a patient’s medical history, Seamless Exchange obtains, combines, and deduplicates health data from various sources, although treatment was taken from various providers.

The extensive view will enable MU Health Care’s doctors and nurses to view a patient’s health history, medications, and other important details required to suggest the best course of treatment.

Oracle Health interoperability vice president Sam Lambson said: “Transforming, organising, and understanding data is critical to helping physicians, individuals, and communities get the information they need to improve healthcare.

“With Seamless Exchange, we are taking data exchange beyond connectivity to true usability. This is a big step forward for the industry.

“Not only does it immediately ease the administrative burden on clinicians, it sets the stage for a more connected and open healthcare ecosystem that will deliver better outcomes for patients and providers while making global health systems more useable and equitable.”

To get rid of duplicate information and manual data management, Seamless Exchange automatically restores new data against old data, said Oracle.

The cleansed information can be directly accessed in the clinician’s workflow without looking through several sources to find significant information. This is expected to enhance the care quality along with supporting the safety of patients.

Presently, MU Health Care is said to leverage Seamless Exchange at Fulton Family Health Associates and Family Medicine, Mexico, two of its ambulatory clinics. It is also planning to extend the deployment throughout its health system this year.

MU Health Care clinical decision support medical director Robert Pierce said: “In the clinics where we’ve launched Oracle Health Seamless Exchange, we’ve seen the benefits of its data deduplication capabilities firsthand and gained reconciliation efficiencies quickly. It is simplifying the ingestion of critical external health data.

“Now, with external patient data more consistently integrated into the local chart, our clinicians can make care decisions more confidently, considering all relevant factors so patients receive more consistent and better care.”