HealtheIntent

HealtheIntent (developed by Cerner, which was recently acquired by Oracle in a massive $28 billion deal) is a colossal, fiercely competitive, and highly advanced healthcare analytics platform. While Epic's analytics work best when a hospital uses Epic for everything, Cerner built HealtheIntent specifically as an "Agnostic Data Aggregator." It is engineered to pull data from *any* EHR system (Epic, Allscripts, Meditech), normalize it, and analyze it globally. The absolute core differentiator of HealtheIntent is its "Longitudinal Patient Record and Normalization Engine." A patient might see a primary care doctor using Cerner, a cardiologist using Epic, and go to an urgent care using Athenahealth. HealtheIntent aggressively ingests the data from all these disparate systems, cleans up the messy coding discrepancies, and creates one single, flawless, longitudinal timeline of the patient's entire medical history for analysis. Furthermore, it powers massive analytics for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and insurance payors to track the financial costs of care versus the clinical outcomes (Value-Based Care). Backed by the staggering cloud computing power of Oracle, HealtheIntent is heavily favored by massive health information exchanges (HIEs) and complex networks that have inherited dozens of different, messy EHRs through hospital mergers.