AUSTIN, Texas, May 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The New England
Journal of Medicine recently published a study on the impact of
COVID-19 vaccinations on pregnant people. At the heart of the study
was the data that expectant individuals provided to the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) using the v-safe after vaccination health
checker. The article concluded that "Preliminary findings did not
show obvious safety signals among pregnant persons who received
mRNA Covid-19 vaccines." Read the full findings here.
"The Oracle developed v-safe system enables millions of patients
to voluntarily share their vaccination experience and data without
compromising their privacy," said Oracle Chairman and CTO,
Larry Ellison. "Healthcare
professionals can then immediately access, analyze and act on the
millions of up-to-minute health records in the database. Access to
this massive amount of real-world health data will improve the
quality of decision making critical to the practice of medicine and
formulation of public health policy. We needed to get this data in
the hands of researchers and medical practitioners immediately, and
American citizens rose to the challenge by volunteering their data
to help others. Oracle is proud to play a role in this program and
mark a new era of medicine using real-world evidence to guide
decisions."
Throughout the pandemic, Oracle provided cloud technology and
services to the U.S. government to ensure our public health
officials have access to up-to-the-minute data to better understand
and combat the virus. This includes developing the v-safe system
and making it easy for every person who receives a COVID-19
vaccination to report side effects and other data in just seconds
using their smartphone or computer.
Today, over a hundred million records are in the system,
enabling the global medical community to see the impact of the
vaccine on various segments of the population, including pregnant
people – where no data or intelligence was collected before. An
ongoing CDC study enables these expectant individuals to also
voluntarily opt-in to provide continued updates throughout their
pregnancy and birth – providing invaluable insight on any potential
long-term effects of the vaccines.
The Oracle v-safe system plus other Oracle public health systems
are being used to manage the distribution of vaccines throughout
the world. All these systems are built on the Oracle Cloud
providing the highest levels of security and privacy. To learn more
about how Oracle's National Electronic Health Records Cloud and
Public Health Management Applications Suite are helping the U.S.
and other governments manage COVID-19 and other public health
issues, visit here.
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