Congratulations to @Oracle Health, winner of the Best AI Provider-Hospital Partnership category in Newsweek's inaugural AI Impact Health Awards.

But Hub goes beyond partnership. Every new location joins the same record on its first day in the group.

A new location appears in Hub as one more site under the same organization.

Last month it was an independent practice with its own software and its own way of doing everything. Today the administrator is assigning roles and switching on the applications its work calls for.

The patients already booked there will soon share one record with the rest of the group.

What happens to their history in the move?

That practice is part of a shift that has been running for more than a decade. The American Medical Association reported that 42.2 percent of physicians worked in private practice in 2024, down from 60.1 percent in 2012. Over the same period, the share working in hospital-owned practices rose from 23.4 percent to 34.5 percent.

For patients, that raises a real question: when their doctor's practice becomes part of something bigger, does their care become more connected, or more scattered? It depends on what the bigger organization does with the records. If each acquired site keeps its own system, a patient who sees a specialist at one location and has surgery at another may find their history living in two places. Allergies get re-entered. Medication lists drift apart.

Hub is designed so that doesn't happen. An organization enrolls through Hub, sets up its sites and teams, decides who can see what, and turns on the applications each location needs. A surgery center gets ASC and Continuum. A behavioral health clinic gets Mind. Every site uses Forge and Profiler, and Companion follows patients home. All of them write to one governed record, in English, Spanish or French, with each organization sealed off from every other.

There's a quieter point here for anyone thinking about where lasting value sits. A group that grows by acquisition usually inherits the fragmentation of every practice it buys. A group on one record can compare how its sites care for patients, spread what works from one location to all of them, and give every clinician the same complete view of the same patient. Each new location becomes a configuration inside Hub rather than one more system to reconcile.

Migration isn't quick, and pretending otherwise would be wrong. Moving a practice off a legacy system takes planning, training and leadership commitment.

So as consolidation continues, watch what happens to the patient's record after the sale closes. Does it follow them through every door?