{
  "id": 8282409,
  "title": "San Juan Regional Medical Center implements Oracle Health tools",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/san-juan-regional-medical-center-implements-oracle-health-tools",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-18T18:08:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Investing.com",
    "slug": "investing-com",
    "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/san-juan-regional-medical-center-implements-oracle-health-tools-93CH-4907770"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "San Juan Regional Medical Center in Austin, Texas has implemented Oracle Health tools to enhance patient flow and bed management operations. The nonprofit healthcare system deployed Oracle Health Command Center Dashboard, Oracle Health Patient Flow, and Oracle Health Transfer Center. These tools were supported by Optum, a division of UnitedHealth Group. The Four Corners region, which includes New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah, is served by San Juan Regional Medical Center.\n\nThe primary goal was to address coordination issues among bed management, environmental services, and clinical operations teams. According to John Gaede, CIO at San Juan Regional Medical Center, the collaboration with Oracle Health provided a solid foundation for this improvement. After one month of implementation, operational metrics showed a significant reduction in bed-assignment time from 54 minutes to 33 minutes, a 38.9% decrease. Environmental services response time dropped from 49.67 minutes to 25.56 minutes, a 48.5% reduction. Environmental services clean-completion time also improved by 1.2%.\n\nSan Juan Regional Medical Center's clinical and operational teams now have a more connected view of operations through the new solutions. Carlo Hallak, MD, physician informatics executive at the medical center, stated that these tools help enhance coordination, improve discharge readiness, and turn beds over more quickly to accommodate new patients. The solutions build upon San Juan Regional's existing use of Oracle Health's clinical and revenue cycle systems. Oracle provides cloud infrastructure and business applications, while Optum is part of UnitedHealth Group. The Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit is scheduled to take place in Orlando from September 22-24, 2026.",
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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."
}