In an effort to help individuals and occupants spend more time with and know their patients, Oracle Health announced a partnership with Meharry Medical College in Nashville. The company announced that it would also support study advancing population health, health computing, and precision medicine. In a recent news, the company announced that the new health systems education and research innovation hub, community care and wellness center in Nashville would make use of Oracle’s cloud-based and unnatural intelligence-driven diagnostic tools to give hands-on training and experienced learning opportunities. As one of the world’s four historically Black scientific health research centers, this is a “pivotal time” for Meharry, which has provided mission-driven care for almost 150 years, according to Dr. James E. K. Hildreth, the college’s president and CEO. ” By combining our experience with Oracle Health’s modern technology, we will build a way that different institutions and communities you follow”, said Hildreth in a declaration. The partners said they will talk with local stakeholders to make sure their work is coordinated with and developed in collaboration with regional healthcare providers, public officials, health plans, and community and patient advocacy groups working to improve access to care and access to care in the area. THE LARGER TRENDNashville’s health disparities by race and income are reportedly wide. The first national health survey conducted by NashvilleHealth and the Metro Public Health Department in more than 20 years was conducted in partnership with NashvilleHealth in 2019. According to Dr. Bill Frist, former U. S. Senate Majority Leader from Tennessee, writing for Forbes in August, the healthcare services capital of the U. S.– so named by the Nashville Healthcare Council – has” a shocking paradox”. He claimed in his story how Nashville Health, which he founded and is chairman of, is coordinating resources to advance health equity, that our citizens have on average among the poorest health in the entire country in comparison to comparable-sized cities. Two years ago, Dr. Kedar Mate, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, suggested health equity as a critical fifth aim for the aspirational IHI-developed framework, which organizations look to in their pursuits to improve healthcare delivery. The COVID-19 pandemic “brought long-overdue and much-needed attention to the lack of health equity in the US and around the world”, he wrote about the new imperative in JAMA. Health equity considerations “were a threat to all four of the quadruple aim’s dimensions,” Mate explained to Healthcare IT News last year. ON THE RECORD” This collaboration transcends education and will create a model for more compassionate, equitable and community-centered care allowing everyone access to the care they need and deserve”, said Hildreth in a statement. Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager of Oracle Health and Life Sciences,” Our collaboration with Meharry Medical College is helping our mission to transform the entire healthcare industry.” The research, technology, and skills we are developing will benefit the Nashville community in addition to broaden their impact as students enter the workforce and use their insights and understanding to shape the global healthcare landscape’s future. Healthcare IT News ‘ senior editor is Andrea Fox. Email: afox@himss .org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.