Introduction

Oracle Healthcare Data Repository (HDR) is a comprehensive data repository and service infrastructure that provides independent software vendors, system integrators, and provider organizations with a state of the art software platform that lets them build robust and scalable healthcare applications.

HDR software components let HDR based applications centralize and consolidate patient, provider, and healthcare data, including business rules that span the enterprise. HDR helps healthcare organizations to overcome challenges unique to their industry, and to achieve the following operational benefits:

• Managing business transactions consistently in the patient care process, thereby increasing the efficiency, quality and competitive edge of the organization.
• Maximizing healthcare data reuse and portability through the use of standards, enabling seamless integration and consistent implementation between variant healthcare information systems.
• Implementing protocol-based decision support, based on a complete view of patient information.