HIT Consultant June 24, 2022
Earlier this month Oracle closed its $28.3B acquisition of Cerner and shortly after Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, outlined Oracle’s vision for Healthcare IT post-acquisition. The key elements of this vision included:
– Developing a solution for a national EHR database.
– Leveraging this solution, and similar smaller-scale connected EHR initiatives, to provide life science, pharma and other users with a rich environment for research, clinical trials and drug development.
– Leveraging the combined company’s provider customer base across ERP (legacy Oracle) and EHR (legacy Cerner) to drive new products and synergies.
– Expansion of Millennium functionality in telemedicine, disease-specific management tools, RCM, HCM and diagnostics.
The element of the vision that has captured...