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Friday, February 20, 2026

Strategic Transition: Addressing Key Gaps and Migration Imperatives from Cerner RevElate to Oracle Health Patient Accounting

 


This article responds to growing demand among healthcare IT leaders for practical migration insights as organizations transition from Cerner Legacy and RevElate Patient Accounting to Oracle Health Patient Accounting (OHPA). It outlines key functional differences between the platforms from a revenue cycle management perspective and explains how OHPA’s advanced automation, cloud-based architecture, integrated analytics, and improved regulatory responsiveness deliver significant advantages as Oracle phases out legacy solutions in favor of a unified, future-ready platform.


Oracle Health clients currently using RevElate or legacy platforms like Soarian Patient Accounting and Cerner Millennium Patient Accounting are required to migrate to the new Oracle Health Patient Accounting (OHPA) platform. This transformative step is mandated because OHPA is Oracle’s strategic, cloud-native revenue cycle platform, consolidating innovation, support, and compliance for the entire client base. Migrating enables organizations to leverage future-focused automation, unified workflows, advanced analytics, and regulatory agility unavailable in previous systems.

Platform Evolution and Context

Oracle Health’s strategy centers around unifying clinical and financial operations through a cloud-native architecture, allowing for deep integration with Oracle Analytics Cloud and other enterprise tools. As Oracle consolidates its patient accounting offerings, OHPA stands as the designated go-forward product, receiving all innovation, enhancements, and support—making migration essential for clients who seek continued regulatory compliance and product longevity.

Core Systems

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Why and How Migration Is Required

  • Unified Platform Vision: Oracle Health Patient Accounting is Oracle’s target solution for revenue cycle management. By consolidating Soarian Financials, Millennium Patient Accounting, and RevElate under OHPA, Oracle reduces platform fragmentation, focusing all development, regulatory updates, and support on this new platform.
  • Future-Proof Efficiency: OHPA leverages AI-driven automation, scalable cloud infrastructure, and open APIs allowing dynamic process redesign, advanced analytics, and rapid innovation.
  • Compliance and Support: Regulatory and payer requirements evolve rapidly, and OHPA is positioned to deliver timely updates, reporting extracts, seamless contract management, and compliance features. Legacy platforms will become unsupported, subject to increased operational risk.
  • Clinical-Driven Revenue Cycle: The integration between Millennium clinical workflows and OHPA enables data synchronization for claims, vitals, and business rules, offering operational agility and reducing manual touches.

Readiness Assessment Considerations

  • Operational Alignment: Organizations must align finance and clinical teams, ensuring workflows and roles adapt to the rapid, cloud-based environment of OHPA.
  • Clean-up and Optimization: Prior to migration, cleaning financial classes, duplicate providers/plans, charge descriptions, and work queue alignment are critical to maximizing the post-migration ROI.
  • Training and Change-Management: Skilled training and communication across clinical, billing, and IT teams should be prioritized, supported by Oracle’s migration and uplift services.
  • Testing and Validation: Rigorous technical preparation, data migration (legacy patient, provider, payer data), unit/integration/UAT testing, and workflow optimization drive successful conversion.

Strategic Interview Talking Points

  • Emphasize OHPA’s built-in process automation, central workflow engine, and unified user experience as major differentiators compared to RevElate, CPA, and Soarian.
  • Highlight Oracle’s strategic direction—cloud-first innovation, quarterly upgrades, extensibility, and Oracle Analytics Cloud—supporting real-time analysis and executive decision making.
  • Stress the risks of remaining on legacy platforms: limited new features, reduced support, increased operational and compliance risk.
  • Note the technical, operational, and change management components required for migration, including cross-venue workflow coordination, error management, and stakeholder training.

Why Conversion Is Mandatory (For RevElate Clients)

Oracle Health RevElate was a stepstone in Oracle’s convergence strategy but lacks the native cloud, AI-driven automation, unified user experience, and regulatory adaptability of OHPA. For Oracle Health clients, migration is not optional—Oracle Health Patient Accounting (OHPA) is the future-proof foundation for all ongoing innovation, regulatory updates, and revenue cycle excellence, ensuring organizations remain competitive and compliant.

What are the key functional gaps between RevElate and OHPA from a revenue cycle POV

The key functional gaps between Oracle Health Patient Accounting (OHPA) and Cerner RevElate, from a revenue cycle perspective, primarily relate to automation, cloud-native architecture, clinical integration, analytics, upgrade cadence, and regulatory adaptability. These gaps explain why Oracle is mandating a transition to OHPA for all RevElate clients.

Core Functional Gaps

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Practical Revenue Cycle Impacts

• AR and Denial Management: OHPA provides centralized, customizable worklist automation for AR, claims, denial handling, and exception processing, whereas RevElate uses modular worklists managed via CRT/Cloud.Next, which are less extensible and lack dynamic automation.

• Charge Capture and Reconciliation: OHPA allows deep integration with clinical workflows for charge code mapping, crosswalks, and reconciliation, simplifying charge error resolution and reducing manual interventions. RevElate requires more custom rule configuration for mapping and relies on replay/event management for error handling.

• Regulatory Compliance: OHPA is built to deliver frequent, automated regulatory updates, minimizing business risk as rules and payer requirements evolve. RevElate depends on manual upgrades and rule adjustments, which can create lag in compliance.

• Quarterly Upgrades: OHPA’s cloud design allows for rapid quarterly upgrades, minimal operational disruption, and predictable enhancement cycles. RevElate, being rooted in older architectures, cannot deliver this pace of innovation—future upgrades will focus on OHPA.

Strategic Implication

As highlighted within above mentioned gaps analysis why Oracle Health clients are required to convert to OHPA, the transition not only secures continued support but also unlocks advanced revenue cycle intelligence, operational efficiency, and regulatory agility that legacy platforms cannot match. RevElate’s capabilities were an intermediate convergence step for Cerner/Soarian environments but are now outpaced by the cloud-native, automation-centric OHPA. Oracle is consolidating long-term development, support, and compliance into OHPA. Remaining on RevElate increases operational risk, reduces access to innovation, and complicates meeting revenue cycle best practices.


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A Flowchart for Choosing Your Religion

A Flowchart for Choosing Your Religion

Looking for a JOB - How to Be the Next Hire

Making You the Most Viable Next Hire
Being flexible, creative and adaptable in today’s economy is the cornerstone to survival. The job search is no different and, with unemployment rising, requires just as much vigilance. One way you can keep your options open and make yourself even more marketable is by considering Consulting in addition to your quest for full-time employment. Often perceived as an “either-or” scenario, Consulting offers you just as many benefits as it does your “would be” employer:

Track record of Fixing Problems?
Career wise, people typically fall into one of two categories: those who thrive on problem solving and the prospect of a new challenge –or- someone who is exceptionally good at steering the ship once it is on course. If the thought of fixing something that is broken appeals to you (versus has you thinking about reaching for the Tylenol), then Consulting might be an avenue to explore.

A More Flexible Interview
Quite often, what a company needs is someone to tackle a specific problem, not a new full-time employee. Identifying this in the interview and being able to present yourself as the solution to their problem (at a lower cost), can ultimately create a job tailor made for you and your skill set. No one can compete against that.

Dating Before Marriage
A consulting engagement can give you the opportunity to see if this company is a nice place to visit or a great place to live. The only thing worse than a prolonged job search, is ending up in a position that results in you being unemployed again in 6-12 months. Consulting lets you do more due diligence than you could ever accomplish in an interview.

“Consulting” on Your Resume
To many recruiters, seeing “consulting” as your current role without any clients/engagements is just a way to dress up being out of work. But, with a list of key accomplishments at those engagements, you show that you are in demand, have more control over your search and are broadening your experience. The latter is extremely important if you are looking to transition industries.

Change Agent
For companies looking to make some sort of change internally (and you should like this if you have a track record of fixing problems), consulting is a more preferred approach versus hiring a permanent employee. It is much easier to come in as a consultant, effect the course correction and then hand it off to the internal leadership.

Money
Besides the obvious benefit of having income during your search, it also gives you breathing room to be more objective in selecting your next job.

It’s Easier to Find a Job When You Already Have One
So much of what makes this true is that fact that when you are employed, you tend to be a bit more objective because you have a “bird in hand.” Consulting (in addition to easing that financial strain, which helps here) can provide the self-assurance that comes along with being employed, which can get whittled away while unemployed.

Presenting yourself as a viable consultant or full time employee isn’t mutually exclusive. Rather, they are simply two sides to the same coin. For the companies where you interview, this will only make you more viable and versatile in your eyes. For you, there is nothing to lose. The worst thing that happens here is you generate some income to inevitable financial strain of your job search. On the other hand, you might just find through this process that you discover your next career move.

Bağdat Caddesi

Gel de parmaklara hakim ol, yapma bir Caddebostan, Bağdat Caddesi nostaljisi şimdi!...diğer bir deyişle 'Karşı taraf' . Cok uzun seneler yazları gittiğim, son yıllarda ise her Türkiye'ye gittiğimde kaldığım Istanbul'un bir başka eşşiz köşesi.
1960'lı 70'li yıllarda köşkleriyle, bahçelerinden salkım salkım sarkan ortancalarıyla, billur gibi denizliyle, 'sayfiye' yeri olmasıyla meşhur Erenköy, Suadiye, Caddebostan.

Dükkanların az, ağaçların çok olduğu, bunca yıl geçmesine rağmen hala güzelliğini koruyan Bağdat Caddesi. On, onbir yaşımdan itibaren yazlarım geçti oralarda. Sokaklarda oynanırdı o zamanlar, öyle pek araba filan geçmezdi. Doyasıya bisiklete binilir, el birakarak gitmek büyük marifet sayılır Erenköy, Saskınbakkal, Göztepe bisikletle rahat rahat gidilir dönülürdü. Deniz için bazı sokakların denize vardıkları noktalarda bulunan kayıkhanelerden saatlik ücretle kayık kiralanır, kadın erkek kürek çekmeyi bilir, kayıktan denize girilirdi. Bazı gençler dalıp iskele ayaklarından midye toplar bazıları ise sığ kumda zıpkınla vatos avlarlardı. Sokaklardan dondurmacılar geçerdi o zamanlar. Simdiki gibi binbir çeşit ne gezer 'Dondurma, Kaymaaak' diye bağıran dondurmacının küçücük arabasında sadece kaymaklı ve limonlu dondurma olur, bazen ise çeşit olsun diye vişneli bulunurdu.

Caddebostan Plajı'nın yanı sıra bir de üyelikle girilebilen klüpler vardı. Marmara Yelken Klubü başta olmak üzere, Balıkadamlar, Caddebostan Yat Klübü ve İstanbul Yelken. Eğer bunlardan birine üyeyseniz veya üye bir arkadaşınız varsa bazı sporları yapma veya izleme olanağınız olur, voleybol, ping pong oynar, kıyıdan yelkenlilerin yarışlarını izlerdiniz. Denizin ortasında ise köfteciler vardı. Bunlardan aklımda kalanı ise mayomuzun kenarına sıkıştırdığımız parayla yüzdüğümüz, veya kayıkla yanaştığımız 'Fıştak'tı. Dönerken yüzülüyorsa demirlemiş kayıklara tutuna tutuna, dinlene dinlene yüzülürdü.

Akşamüstüne doğru herkesi bir 'piyasa' heyecanı alırdı. Saçlar yıkanır, bildiğımız ütüyle ütülenerek düzeltilir, ve (Bağdat) Cadde'ye binbir tur atmaya çıkılırdı. Bir aşağı, bir yukarı. Parkur ise genellikle Santral Durağı'ndan Saşkınbakkala kadardı. O zaman 'cafe' adeti bir elin parmaklarını geçmez, 'Borsa'da yer bulabilmek için hızlı davranmak gerekir, 'Divan' ise gençlere çok pahalı geldiğinden ancak hafif 'yaşı geçmiş'lerin duraklama mekanı olurdu. Hali varaba sahiakti oldukça yerinde olan birkaç genç ise bir aşağı bir yukarı arabayla giderek Mustang veya Corvette'leriyle gelene geçene hava atarlardı.

Geceleri ise açık hava sinemalarının keyfine doyulmazdı. Caddebostan'daki Ozan Sineması'nda genellikle Türk filmleri oynar, çıkınca biraz aşağıda, Caddebostan Maksim Gazino'sunun (MIGROS)yakınındaki büfe'de 'zümküfül' yenirdi (Bir çeşit sosisli sandoviç ) Yabancı filmlerin mekanı ise Budak Sineması'ydı (Şimdiki CKM). Yastıgını kapıp tahta iskemlelere yerleştirdikten sonra, çekirdeğini çıtlatarak izlenirdi filmler. Bazen bu sinemalarda Cem Karaca gibi o zamanın ünlü sesleri konserler verir, bazıları ağaç tepelerinden konser izlerdi.

Sonra sonra o köşkler birer birer yıkılmaya, yerlerin uzun uzun binalar dikilmeye, Cadde'deki evlerin yerlerini dükkanlar almaya, arabalar çoğalmaya, faytonlar yok olmaya, tekerlekli dondurmacıların yerini Algida'cılar almaya başladı. Ama ne mutlu ki tüm büyümeler, kalabalıklaşmalar rağmen 'Cadde'yi bozmayı başaramadı! O hala 'Cadde', İstanbul'un ,Türkiye'nin en güzide caddesi hala boydan boya yürümekten zevk aldığım, bir yerde oturup geleni geçeni izlemenin keyfini her yıl bir iki hafta yaşayabildiğim bir yer.

Galata' ya dogru...

Galata' ya dogru...

The best way to improve health care requires physicians and other stakeholders

My honest approach for how to improve the care is to support a methodology such as being self-serving. I would like to start a program to introduce a software-based point-of-care tool for obtaining patient feedback. This real time information can be used with clients to positively impact the patient experience, nurse engagement, physician (soft skills) competence and overall quality. In my perspective the criteria for fulfilling the demand for finding the best way to improve healthcare is that it need be simple to implement, impactful and cost effective. The most impact to healthcare improvement will come from process improvement and healthcare provider recruitment AND retention. The by-products will be reduced cost of care and improved patient satisfaction. This applies to hospitals and private practices. Based on current studies and the economy, supplying adequate healthcare to the community is already tough and is going to get more challenging. Recruiting sufficient healthcare coverage will boost revenue and provide some improvement to patient satisfaction (wait time and access). However, failure to retain the medical staff will significantly hurt the outcome. With high demand and low supply, it will be well worth the time and money to present "we have the greenest pastures here". The method mentioned above may be called such as point-of-care through successful implementations that may turn in to popular key parts of process improvement. You need to have some feedback from the patients and the physicians in order to measure the processes that should be or are currently being improved. In order to achieve this you have to create the acronym HOSPITAL to help those in Healthcare recall the numbers of different types of inefficiencies in any medical facility. Those who have been exposed to Six Sigma and Lean have an appreciation for improvement opportunities and generally view things through differently trained eyes that can see within all those facilities. Publishing the results of the similar programs online may offer a transparent access to the consumers to monitor these inefficiencies. Welcoming any feedback relative to this and encourage your staff to consider this method or similar training methods for their teams will be highly critical for the outcome. We have to understand that it is impossible to solve a problem that we are unaware of. By providing even the most basic tools at the lowest level possible, these problems have a way of surfacing. While everyone recognizes that healthcare systems and organizations need to improve, I think not enough time is spent on firstly identifying the key stakeholders, and secondly properly ENGAGING them. I strongly believe that not enough time is spent trying to engage physicians in this process. In my experience too many of these "improvement strategies" are top-down decisions by non-clinical managers who failed to conduct any research into what physicians might want or what stumbling blocks there are/were to get them to adopt the new technologies. EMR/EHR/CPOE are prime examples - all of these require a breakdown in the normal activity flow of providers, as it requires them to either find and log on to a terminal or carry a bulky instrument. Almost all clients and colleagues I have worked with resent and resist those methods. And look how few MDs are part of Healthcare consulting firm teams. IMHO, I believe more energy should be spent engaging rather than alienating MDs as a first step, then doing the same for patients in order to get buy in from the two key stakeholders as I see it. I've always found that engaging these stakeholders on projects from the beginning results in more buy-in and most importantly, better recommendations/outcomes (a better product).

ULTIMATE RESULTS

ULTIMATE RESULTS

Ilhan Arsel

Ilhan Arsel

BJK FOREVER

BJK FOREVER
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