Becker's Healthcare April 26, 2024
While calling Epic a “great company,” Oracle co-founder and chair Larry Ellison said his organization aims to service the entire healthcare industry beyond just health systems.
Mr. Ellison said at an April 23 talk that he plans to apply “Musk’s law” — or the Tesla co-founder’s approach of controlling the electric car supply chain — to healthcare. Oracle bought EHR vendor Cerner in 2022.
“Epic does providers, hospitals,” Mr. Ellison told former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist, MD, at the Oracle Health Summit in Nashville, Tenn. “But we’ve also got to automate the payers. By the way, a lot of those are national governments around the world. We’ve got to automate the pathology department, surveillance. We’ve got to do medical devices....
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