Dan Abdul

Oracle (Cerner) falls even further behind Epic, and its new AI-powered EHR is only going to make things worse for them. Yesterday, a new KLAS report dropped an expected bombshell: Oracle Health lost 57 hospitals in 3 years as clients fled to other platforms (mostly to Epic). Meanwhile, Epic has surged ahead, now serving 42% of U.S. acute-care hospitals (nearly double Oracle’s 23%). Oracle is betting on a new AI-powered EHR (whatever that means) to regain ground. But here’s the reality: healthcare isn’t a bleeding-edge industry when it comes to tech adoption. Doctors and patients are cautious. At Callen-Lorde, when we rolled out Abridge’s AI scribe, we had some providers opt out, not because it didn’t work, but because they weren’t comfortable with AI in their exam rooms. Some patients and staff also voiced concerns. In an LGBTQ+ community where many have experienced trauma and are also highly informed, that skepticism is totally understandable even if I don’t fully agree with it. This isn’t just Oracle’s challenge, it’s every healthtech innovator’s. The question isn’t “Can AI do it?” but “Will patients and providers trust it enough to use it?” This Epic-versus-Oracle saga is also a litmus test for digital health innovation and trust. If a tech giant like Oracle can stumble after a $28B bet on Cerner, what does it say about the future of big tech in healthcare? https://lnkd.in/gamejC48

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The Best Healthcare CIOs Think in “Care Minutes,” Not IT Metrics Uptime, tickets closed, and project milestones matter — but they’re not the point. The real unit of value in healthcare IT is care minutes returned. Every workflow simplified, every login sped up, every alert eliminated gives clinicians back time they can spend thinking, listening, and caring. That’s where quality improves and burnout retreats. Great CIOs don’t ask, “Did we deploy the system?” They ask, “Did this give time back to care?” When IT decisions are framed through that lens, priorities get clearer, tradeoffs get easier, and technology finally serves the mission instead of distracting from it. What’s one change that would immediately give clinicians time back today? #HealthcareIT #CIOLeadership #ClinicianExperience #PatientSafety #CareDelivery #HealthSystemPerformance #DigitalHealth #OperationalExcellence

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This video by @InterSystems introduces the OMOP Platform, a new service by InterSystems designed to support researchers by transforming EHR data into the OMOP format. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gAq42nhm The platform features a FHIR-to-OMOP transformation pipeline and an OMOP repository hosted on #InterSystems #IRIS Cloud #SQL.

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Ascension and Oracle are expanding their work in healthcare AI as the industry embraces the technology to enhance automation and support clinicians. This collaboration highlights the growing importance of AI in improving healthcare delivery and operational efficiency. For more details, check out the full article here: [Ascension and Oracle Collaborate on AI](https://lnkd.in/eFjbtn8N).

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This statement on information blocking could disrupt EHR vendors’ plans to corner the healthcare data exchange market. Here’s some quick background: EHR vendors like Epic, eCW, and Cerner set up (or are setting up) Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) that connect with other QHINs to form a national data exchange network. Healthcare provider organizations must decide whether to participate in the national network, and if they do, whether to join the QHIN that their EHR vendor offers or an independent one. It would have been tempting for the EHR+QHIN vendors to strongarm their provider clients into proprietary QHINs. The EHR vendors could have said things like: 🫸 “Choose our QHIN or you will be on your own to bring data from the national network into the EHR.” 💰 “You will have to pay us so much to ingest data from a competitor QHIN that you might as well join ours.” 🏆 “Joining our QHIN may be costly, but it would help you qualify for our Super Amazing Client Program and avoid costly EHR penalties. And we’ll waive our QHIN costs for a year or two.” ⏳“You could submit a request to bring data from a competing QHIN into the EHR, but it’s not really a priority for us and could take a while. Just join our QHIN.” The section of the FAQ document pictured below says that attempts to limit their customers’ ability to select a QHIN would be considered information blocking. EHR vendors that engage in such behavior could face monetary penalties and legal consequences. I agree with this guidance from ASPT/ONC. Providers and other organizations should be able to select the QHIN that offers the best services at the lowest price - not the QHIN that has the most leverage. EHR vendors that offer QHINs already have systems to connect with other QHINs to bring data into the EHR from the national network. They should allow their provider partners to bring life-saving clinical data into the EHR without forcing them into their QHINs. I’m looking forward to seeing whether the four-sentence FAQ response from ASTP/ONC will change the direction of the market on this. Perhaps you are reading this differently. What do you think? Will the EHR+QHIN vendors still convince most providers to join their QHINs? https://lnkd.in/gwgJTSvC

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Innovation isn’t about the next shiny tool it’s about real people, real outcomes, and real impact. That’s why our partnership with Radiology Partners stands out. This isn’t a typical vendor relationship. It’s a collaboration built on trust, shared values, and a bold vision to transform care delivery especially in rural communities like ours. At Mt. San Rafael Hospital and Clinics, we’ve embraced advanced AI-driven radiology not because it’s trendy but because it saves lives. It improves accuracy, accelerates diagnosis, and strengthens the care experience for every patient who walks through our doors. This video may be short, but the message is deep: This isn’t about the future it’s about right now. Because when innovation meets purpose, lives change. 🎥 Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gVri84Xs #HealthcareInnovation #CIOLeadership #RadPartners #AIinRadiology #RuralHealthcare #DigitalTransformation #PatientCenteredCare #StrategicPartnerships #TrailblazingHealthcare #GSD #CreoEnTi #creoennosotros #HIMSS26 #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation#healthit #healthtech #HITsecurity #Interoperability #PatientEngagement #PatientExperience #RPPLS

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What Might Surprise You About Healthcare Technology: A CIO’s Perspective As a seasoned Chief Information Officer in healthcare, I’m often asked about the latest innovations—AI, telemedicine, interoperability. But what may surprise people is this: the most profound impact of technology in healthcare today isn’t just about machines or algorithms. It’s about trust, time, and transformation of the human experience. Yes, we’ve seen dramatic gains from analytics, virtual care, and digital front doors. But the quiet revolution—the one that doesn’t make headlines—is how technology is reshaping relationships: between clinicians and patients, between departments, between systems once siloed and now starting to speak the same language. Take automation, for example. It’s easy to think of robotic process automation (RPA) as a back-office efficiency tool. But behind the scenes, it’s giving nurses back precious minutes per shift, enabling faster discharges, and reducing burnout. It’s restoring human time in a system that has long been time-starved. Or consider real-time location systems (RTLS), which some see as just a tracking tool. In practice, they’re reducing emergency department wait times, optimizing bed turnover, and—perhaps most surprisingly—boosting patient satisfaction scores. Why? Because patients feel less lost, and staff feel less reactive. The invisible tech improves visible care. What may surprise people most is that despite billions in investment, the biggest challenge today isn’t what tech we deploy—it’s how we govern it, adopt it, and align it to frontline realities. A new platform means little if it’s not usable, secure, or embraced by clinicians. Culture, not code, remains the gating factor. As a CIO, my role isn’t just technical. It’s deeply human. I’m in the business of change management, stakeholder alignment, and building digital trust—because without it, even the most advanced system can fail. The future of healthcare technology won’t be defined solely by innovation. It will be defined by whether we use that innovation to restore meaning to care, simplify complexity, and truly connect people to better health. That, perhaps, is the most surprising impact of all. #HealthcareIT #HealthTech

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