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Oracle thinks it can fix healthcare’s biggest tech issue

• dekhn 4y ago
  No, it doesn't. It thinks it can be part of the incredibly profitable healthcare sector and extract its pound of flesh from everybody.
• cratermoon 4y ago
  As someone who has used both Cerner's product and it's main rival Epic, I can unequivocally say that Cerner is a pile of dog excrement, which makes it a perfect fit for Oracle's portfolio. Epic has its warts, of course – no complex software is flawless – but Epic blows away Cerner for usability.
• nradov 4y ago
  Due to fragmentation in the EHR market, a centralized clinical repository can't really solve the issue. Most of the healthcare industry is moving towards federated approaches where authorized organizations can first search in a record locator service to see which other organizations have records for a particular patient, then selectively query those organizations for the needed data.