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Inova Health System has selected a suite of Oracle Health Sciences interoperability and analytics products as the informatics foundation for a value-based, personalized healthcare model to improve the quality of care for its patients.

Inova Health System will use an integrated suite of Oracle solutions including Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base, Oracle Healthcare Master Person Index, Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Real Application Clusters, and several components of Oracle Fusion Middleware, including Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g and Oracle SOA Suite 11g to create a data services hub that links patient information through a secure and interoperable informatics infrastructure across operational, clinical care and research domains.

The new informatics environment will break down health data silos to deliver actionable insight that can help Inova Health System drive continuous improvement in quality of care and operational efficiency. It will also help to unlock the value of data captured in disparate healthcare transactional systems for secondary uses that accelerate research and yield new clinical and translational insight.

As part of its informatics initiative, Inova will use the Oracle Health Sciences solution to help the region’s 4,000 affiliated physicians achieve meaningful use of healthcare IT, as well as move toward an Accountable Care model – a critical requirement as healthcare reform is implemented and pay-for-performance and similar initiatives become more widespread.

Additionally, Inova plans to use its informatics infrastructure to support new research and care programs that advance personalized medicine, taking advantage of the great strides in molecular understanding of disease since the mapping of the human genome.

The new infrastructure will also help enable personalized care management programs within the community to help prevent disease before it strikes.