{
  "id": 7833938,
  "title": "Oracle Health extends clinical AI agent to inpatient nurses",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/oracle-health-extends-clinical-ai-agent-to-inpatient-nurses",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-16T15:32:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fierce Healthcare",
    "slug": "fierce-healthcare",
    "url": "https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-machine-learning/oracle-health-extends-clinical-ai-agent-inpatient-nurses"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Oracle Health is expanding its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings for inpatient nursing workflows. The company recently introduced a clinical AI agent for nurses, which is now available in the United States. The AI tool, integrated directly into the Oracle Health Foundation electronic health record (EHR), incorporates voice-driven chart navigation, acute nursing summaries, and voice-enabled discrete charting. This technology is designed to assist nurses in swiftly locating patient information and documenting care in near real-time, according to Oracle Health's press release.\n\nEstablished just a year ago, Oracle Health's next-generation EHR features advanced AI and voice capabilities, marking the first significant update to the company's EHR solutions since the acquisition of Cerner in a $28 billion deal in June 2022. The clinical AI agent for nurses complements Oracle Health's expanding range of AI tools aimed at alleviating administrative burdens within healthcare. Since its launch nearly two years ago, Oracle Health's clinical note AI tools have reportedly saved physicians over 400,000 hours across U.S. health organizations.\n\nOracle Health's clinical AI agent for nurses addresses the continuous demands on nurses, who must frequently transition between reviewing patient records, documenting care, and coordinating with other healthcare professionals. The AI tool aims to facilitate easier access to pertinent patient information, provide concise overviews of a patient's history and current condition, and expedite documentation. With natural language voice commands for chart navigation and search, along with AI-powered acute nursing summaries, the agent enables nurses to complete structured documentation at the point of care.\n\nBayCare Health System, an early adopter of the clinical AI tool, highlighted the potential benefits for nursing staff, including reduced after-shift charting, alleviation of administrative burdens, and additional time to focus on patient care. Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, emphasized that nurses often spend a significant portion of their day on manual tasks, such as searching for information and documenting care, and that Oracle Health's Clinical AI Agent for nurses helps nurses spend more time with patients while supporting coordination across the care team.\n\nOracle Health plans to unveil its latest healthcare AI technology at an upcoming event in Orlando. During the company's first-quarter earnings call, co-CEO Mike Sicilia announced the debut of a new agentic care management system, emphasizing its potential to connect clinical research and care delivery, reduce record management burdens for patients, and enable providers to practice at the top of their license with AI as an intuitive user interface. Sicilia expressed confidence in the company's AI initiatives, stating that they are essential for delivering better care while allowing providers to focus on patient care rather than computer systems.",
  "summary": "The clinical AI agent, embedded directly within the Oracle Health Foundation EHR, combines voice-driven chart navigation and search, acute nursing summaries and voice-enabled discrete charting.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}