Fortify Children's Health Uses Oracle Health Data Intelligence to Enhance Pediatric Care Across Its Clinical Network

Virginia-based pediatric care network gains more complete picture of a child's health history, supports early interventions, and enhances patient engagement

Solution helps network achieve value-based care objectives

AUSTIN, Texas, June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortify Children's Health, a Virginia-based pediatric care network, is using Oracle Health Data Intelligence to enhance care for its pediatric population and more effectively manage value-based care contract performance. Using Oracle Health Data Intelligence, Fortify Children's Health integrates data from multiple sources to gain a more comprehensive view of patient medical histories, which helps the network to more accurately track care quality and payer metrics to optimize care and reimbursements.

"Our more than 1,000 individual pediatric, family medicine, and pediatric specialty providers use many different EHRs, and often their data is incompatible. Oracle Health Data Intelligence helps us bring that disparate data into one platform so our clinicians gain a more complete picture of a child's health history," said Bryan Thorne, M.D., Ph.D., director of clinical informatics, Fortify Children's Health. "It also helps us gain the meaningful insights we need as we align our network of payers, providers, and local community groups into a model of care focused on improving health outcomes, lowering cost, and optimizing the experience for clinicians and our patients and their families."

Optimizing Clinical and Financial Outcomes

Using Oracle Health Data Intelligence, Fortify Children's Health integrates, cleanses, and normalizes data from a broad range of network providers using various EHRs, as well as payer claims and enrollment data, the Virginia state health information exchange, and the Virginia immunization registry, to create a single, longitudinal view of each child's health history. Building on this unified data foundation, Oracle Health Data Intelligence analyzes key data points, such as existing conditions, allergies, medications, immunizations, hospital stays, and emergency department visits to populate custom scorecards that help the organization continuously monitor specific value-based care metrics.

As a result, Oracle Health Data Intelligence enables Fortify Children's Health to optimize its performance within value-based care contracts. It automatically identifies care gaps and delivers follow-up alerts to providers, care managers, and practice managers. The solution also helps Fortify Children's Health to prioritize outreach to patients that are most likely to benefit from follow-up communications and treatment to increase care quality and reimbursements. This has resulted in a significant increase in adolescent immunization rates, infant well visits, and proper interventions with asthma patients to help prevent attacks and potential visits to the emergency department.

"Organizations like Fortify Children's Health need to match the right care programs to the right patients to improve outcomes and help reduce the cost of care delivery," said Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences. "Oracle Health Data Intelligence derives insights from disparate data sources, helping healthcare organizations become more predictive and proactive in order to meet their value-based care objectives and improve the health of diverse populations."

Fortify Children's Health plans to add more capabilities from the Oracle Health Data Intelligence suite to help them gain insights into the social determinants of health among pediatric patients—the conditions in which children live, learn, play, and grow that affect their health and wellbeing— to support care decisions and guide patients to appropriate community resources.

Oracle Health Data Intelligence is a suite of cloud infrastructure, analytics, and applications. The suite enables a broad range of healthcare and government stakeholders to use data from across the healthcare ecosystem without the cost and complexity of trying to integrate disparate data and systems on their own. Oracle Health Data Intelligence continuously and securely integrates patient data from a wide range of sources—clinical, claims, revenue cycle, social determinants, pharmacy, and more—to deliver insight across back office and point-of-care workflows. As a result, providers and policy makers gain a more complete view of their patients and populations and benefit from suggested next best actions to optimize care and financial performance.

About Fortify Children's Health

Fortify Children's Health was founded in 2018 by Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters and UVA Health Children's as a pediatric clinically integrated network with the mission to ensure optimal well-being for every child and the vision to collaboratively advance and innovate pediatric population health as the children's provider network of choice. Comprising more than 1,000 pediatric, family medicine, specialty providers and two health systems, our membership is dedicated to the implementation of pediatric-focused standards of care. Our collaborative efforts aim to coordinate resources effectively and accelerate the utilization of data and analytics to enhance outcomes while concurrently reducing costs. Our overarching belief is that by empowering pediatric clinicians to take the lead in Virginia's transition to value-based care, we can foster improved child health and make pediatric care more cost-effective. More information is available at www.fortifychildrens.org.

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