Oracle adds cloud features targeted at healthcare firms

During the company’s CloudWorld conference, the Fusion Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) suite as well as its Supply Chain and Manufacturing (SCM) and Human Capital Management (HCM) suite announced healthcare-centric features, CIO reports. With an eye on meeting the financial planning, supply chain, and human resource needs of customers in the healthcare industry, Oracle on Wednesday, October 19th, announced updates to its Cloud Fusion suite. A number of company suites have been updated, including Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Human Capital Management (HCM).

As indicated by its $28 billion acquisition of healthcare systems maker Cerner in June 2022, Oracle is targeting the healthcare sector as a major target. The company said it was launching planning capabilities that could help healthcare companies optimize financial and operational management by modeling scenarios, determining future demand, optimizing resources, and helping users make better financial, workforce, and patient care decisions.

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Willum Þór: The question remains if our healthcare system is sustainable

On January 1st, Iceland took over the Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers. This intergovernmental organisation plays an important role in promoting innovations, health data integration, and cooperation between all major stakeholders in the Nordic healthcare. The Icelandic Health Minister elaborates on his vision to future health in the Nordic region, the Nordic strengths, Iceland’s plans for the Presidency with regards to health innovations, and the coming collaboration with Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

Jan Larsson: We can bring the Nordic model to a global level

Senior Advisor to Cambio Healthcare systems believes that the momentum and the right model for Nordic Health 2030 were created in the project’s first phase, now we will have to enable faster development of healthcare and technology

Svein Berg: Health data from all Nordic countries can be used for innovations

The Managing Director of Nordic Innovation describes the major developments and the current state of healthcare innovations in the Nordic region, looks into possible futures for such innovations, evaluates results of Nordic Health 2030 in the first phase, and lays out his expectations for the second phase.

Nard Schreurs: The next phase of Nordic Health 2030 shall call for action and renew the social pact

Nard Schreurs, EHiN CEO, describes the current state of Nordic cooperation in digital health, looks back to the start of Nordic Health 2030, and shares his vision on the next phase

CIFS ran an all-day session at the Week of Health and Innovation (WHINN) in Odense

Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies ran an all-day session at the annual Week of Health and Innovation (WHINN) in Odense, Denmark. CIFS’ program attracted over 40 experts from health and data organisations. We presented strategic foresight and futures studies in the health sector, concepts that are used to reimagine the future of the health sector, such as the Humanome and decentralised clinical trials. Also, we had a panel discussion on the newly started Phase V project on decentralised clinical trials, where CIFS is a contributing partner

New HIMSS book out on blockchain in healthcare

The HIMSS Series has a new book on blockchain in healthcare. “Blockchain in Healthcare: Innovations that Empower Patients, Connect Professionals, and Improve Care” is the

Predictive Genomics: Harnessing Genetic Data

Predictive genomics allows using genetic data to help predict common disease risks and drug responses. However, dystopian visions of dividing between ‘good genes’ and ‘bad genes’ are expected to enter future public debates

Augmented Reality in Healthcare: From Operating Rooms to Smartphones

AR is already in dentist clinics, nursing, medical imaging and education, pediatrics, remote surgeries. In the future, AR is likely to be taken out of operating rooms onto smartphones. Patients will see how time and unhealthy lifestyles may affect their bodies

Augmented Reality in Healthcare: Doctors to Gain Superhuman Powers

The ability to look into your bones without invasive operations, the ability to peer back in time. Health data from flat screens onto and into a patient’s body

Digital Health Organisations Who Operate in Europe

Robust organisations comprise a special feature of the European digital health landscape, not known elsewhere. All strong global and pan-European organisations work here

Challenges of NFTs in Healthcare: What Will Future Healthcare NFTs Look Like

The infancy of non-fungible tokens reflects in security breaches and privacy concerns, in legal, blockchain related and environmental issues, in lack of awareness. Easy to operate and to understand, governed and regulated, NFTs shall be first adopted by EHR vendors and manufacturers of medical devices, then by the public

Future Focus Areas in European Digital Health

proactive policies, automated compliance, shift of health data ownership to patients, action-based healthcare services by European digital health platforms, pan-European framework for approval of digital therapeutics, NLP-enabled EU-interoperable electronic health records, awareness and motivation in telemedicine, massive adoption of FARE data principles, remedies to black box perception and rewards for digital health literacy, standard AI for clinical support systems

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