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Oracle's biggest-ever acquisition turned deadly
- mepian 2y ago>Which got him thinking: What if, instead of guesswork, doctors could lean on generative AI to comb through a patient's medical records, along with those of millions of other patients? With such a massive database, doctors could spot the warning signs of disease faster, reduce the need for trial and error, and make better-informed decisions about treatment. Wow, I'm sure nobody has ever been working on this before... /s >That was the promise of Cerner, the medical-records company Oracle bought in 2021 for $28.3 billion — Oracle's biggest acquisition. More than Sun Microsystems, seriously?
- dekhn 2y agoWhile I am highly sympathetic to the idea of using large-scale analysis of medical data to improve outcomes, anybody who thinks they can fix the American health care system is both naive and egotistical.