Oracle, Epic and Google Just Reset Health AI. What Should Patients Do Now?

The health tech map is shifting quickly. Here is what changed and how to stay in control of your records.

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Quick Summary

Big vendors are adding AI to portals, EHRs and billing. That is good for hospitals. Patients still need one place that unifies records from everywhere, explains them in plain language, and travels across clinics and borders.

What changed

  • Oracle patient portal AI: plain language summaries and Q&A inside the portal. Oracle News
  • Oracle AI first EHR: voice driven workflows with a semantic layer that links labs, diagnoses and medications. Oracle News
  • Agentic AI across workflows: an army of agents for documentation, payer checks and clinical trials, powered by a knowledge graph. FierceHealthcare
  • Payer and provider automation: faster prior authorizations and fewer denials. PR Newswire
  • Epic signals more agents: patient concierge and AI assisted notes are on the roadmap.
  • Google model changes: MedLM is being retired, which reinforces the need for model portability.
  • FDA guidance on AI updates: Predetermined Change Control Plans explain how AI medical software can update safely over time. FDA

What this means for patients

  • Hospital portals will get more helpful with explanations and search, but they still show only one institution.
  • Enterprise AI helps clinicians and billing teams. Patients still need a record that is unified and portable.

A simple checklist for this week

  1. Export your records into one place. Download PDFs from every portal you use and centralize them in a Personal Health Record. Start here: Personal Health Records, A Complete Guide.
  2. Choose model agnostic tools. Vendors change models. Your health story should not be tied to one vendor. Keep the record in a PHR that can switch models while the knowledge graph stays constant.
  3. Use AI for explanations, keep humans for decisions. Prep questions for your clinician. Bring the summary to the visit.
  4. Share selectively with consent logs. Use sharing links that you can revoke. Keep an audit trail of every access.
  5. Watch the compliance story. Look for vendors that explain safety, updates and monitoring in plain English, and that align with FDA guidance.

Where Aether fits

Aether is a patient first knowledge graph for your family health. Upload any report or scan, get clear explanations in seconds, see trends and share with explicit consent. As hospitals adopt agentic AI, Aether keeps your complete story with you.

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TL;DR

Hospital AI is accelerating and regulators are adding guardrails. The smartest move is simple. Own your health story in a PHR that is portable, model agnostic and designed for you.