Oracle Health is working with health tech company Theator to integrate artificial intelligence-powered operating room analytics into its platform.
Founded in 2018, Theator provides surgical intelligence solutions that capture surgical video footage, analyze it using AI, and cross-reference it with electronic health record (EHR) data. Surgical teams will benefit from automated reports that are more clinically accurate, optimized for billing, and customized to individual preferences, eliminating the need for transcription or dictation, company executives said.
Surgical documentation is largely manual and retrospective, often created from memory hours or days after surgery. A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons found that surgical reports written from memory were only 72.8% accurate.
Oracle Health and Theator plan to leverage AI to automate processes to help surgeons systematically understand what happened, learn from it, and use those insights to improve quality, safety and efficiency, executives said.
This integration provides reporting directly into Oracle Health EHR workflows and connects surgical intelligence with broader patient records and revenue cycle infrastructure. Accurate documentation at the time of surgery means fewer coding gaps and financial records that truly reflect the complexity of each case.
For health systems, the companies say more accurate documentation improves coding accuracy, reduces revenue leakage and supports quality improvement efforts.
After tech giant Oracle acquired EHR company Cerner in 2022, the company-owned Oracle Health is ramping up its AI capabilities and expanding its AI ecosystem through partnerships. The company aims to go beyond peripheral documentation and integrate AI capabilities into highly specialized clinical settings.
According to Tamir Wolf, M.D., CEO of Theator, the partnership between Theator and Oracle Health “changes the architecture of how surgical data is entered into the medical record.”
“That’s the inflection point. When surgical data flows into the EHR with the same structure and reliability as every other clinical setting, it unlocks capabilities never before possible, including system-wide quality benchmarking, real-time safety intelligence, and standardized surgical care across facilities. Surgical reporting is the beginning, not the end,” Wolf said in a press release.
“Clinical documentation reaches nearly every point of care, but it stops at the operating room door,” Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences, said in a statement. “By partnering with Theator, we can help surgeons understand what’s really happening during surgery and leverage technology that uses AI to streamline the documentation process and reduce cognitive load. This is another example of our commitment to collaborating with the broader enterprise ecosystem to achieve meaningful transformation by expanding customer choice, accelerating the introduction of new capabilities, and providing the connected and scalable technology foundation needed for lasting change.”
During Oracle’s fourth-quarter earnings call on June 10, company executives said that Oracle Health will soon roll out a “completely new AI version” of its Cerner Hospital Clinical Patient Management System.
Executives expect the Oracle Health business to grow by double digits in fiscal 2027.
“We believe that AI is poised to completely revolutionize healthcare,” company management said in a press release issued along with its fourth quarter and full-year results. “Oracle Health AI systems will allow doctors to spend less time on computers and more time with patients. AI molecular design models are expected to help researchers accelerate the development of life-saving drugs. Oracle’s new AI clinical trial system is designed to help regulatory authorities quickly review and approve clinical trial results, giving patients faster access to new medicines. AI will make health care better, more accessible, and less expensive.”
While Oracle has ramped up its focus on AI, it has also begun a slew of layoffs over the past year. CNBC recently reported that the company cut 21,000 jobs, or nearly 13% of its workforce, in the last fiscal year as it underwent a major corporate restructuring and transitioned operations to cloud-based AI services.
