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Oracle Cloud manages Covid-19 vaccination program in the United States

Published on : Thursday 17-12-2020

The Oracle Public Health Management Applications Suite includes applications for managing the entire vaccination process.

Austin, Texas, December 2020 – Nine months ago, the US 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 US public health agencies and healthcare providers collect and analyse 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 US. 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 US 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.

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.

The Oracle National EHR Cloud will serve as the CDC’s central data repository for all vaccination data in the US. This “national clearing house” system will receive data from all U.S. jurisdictions administering vaccinations. Anonymised 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 authorised agencies and organisations.