Enhancing Pediatric Care: Oracle Health Empowers Fortify Children's Health Network

Fortify Children's Health Enhances Pediatric Care with Oracle Health

In a groundbreaking move to advance pediatric healthcare, Fortify Children's Health, based in Virginia, is utilizing Oracle Health Data Intelligence to improve patient care and manage value-based care contracts more effectively. This innovative technology integrates diverse data sources, allowing healthcare providers to gain a comprehensive view of each child's medical history, thus improving tracking of care quality and optimizing reimbursements.

Bridging Data Gaps

The challenge of managing various Electronic Health Records (EHRs) among the network's 1,000+ pediatric and family medicine providers can often lead to incompatible data formats. However, Oracle's solution merges this disparate data into a unified platform, significantly enhancing clinicians' ability to access detailed underlying individual health histories. Dr. Bryan Thorne, Director of Clinical Informatics at Fortify, emphasizes that this integration is crucial for yielding meaningful insights and aligning the network towards achieving improved health outcomes.

Through Oracle Health Data Intelligence, Fortify Children's Health is able to cleanse and normalize data from a range of sources — including provider EHRs, payer claims, the Virginia state health information exchange, and the state immunization registry. This creates a single, longitudinal understanding of each patient's health. The technology analyzes critical health parameters, such as pre-existing conditions, allergies, medications, and immunization records, to generate custom scorecards that facilitate ongoing monitoring of value-based care metrics.

Optimizing Health Outcomes

This advanced data integration helps Fortify Children's Health in optimizing performance across value-based care contracts. By identifying care gaps and triggering alerts for follow-up to providers, this system strengthens outreach to patients in need of additional support or appointments. According to reports, the implementation has already directly led to increased immunization rates among adolescents, improved well-child visits for infants, and better management protocols for asthma patients, which have collectively reduced emergency room visits and hospitalizations.

Seema Verma, Executive Vice President at Oracle, highlights the solution’s role in improving care delivery by ensuring that the right programs are directed to the right patients. As a result, healthcare organizations can become more proactive and predictive, making strides in meeting their goals for value-based care.

Future Endeavors

Looking ahead, Fortify Children’s Health plans to further expand its use of Oracle Health Data Intelligence. They intend to add features capable of analyzing social determinants of health for their pediatric patients. Understanding factors such as the environments where children grow, learn, and play will enable better-targeted care interventions as well as connect families with appropriate community resources.

Technology for Improved Healthcare

Fortify Children’s Health is dedicated to ensuring the wellbeing of every child in their network. Founded in 2018, the organization aims to collaboratively advance pediatric population health care through innovative solutions like those provided by Oracle. Their overarching goal is to empower pediatric clinicians and transform healthcare into a system focused on value, ultimately enhancing the health outcomes of Virginia's children.

For more information, visit Fortify Children’s Health website.