According to the Wall Street Journal, Oracle is in talks to buy Cerner for $ 30 billion. The company operates in the healthcare industry. Among its developments are a system of electronic medical records, special software for medical institutions and specialists, systems for storing and analyzing medical data.
Cerner has been a healthcare information technology provider since 1986. She has extensive experience in the application of IT in healthcare. Cerner has over 8,000 partners worldwide, including hospitals and research centers.
Cerner's central technology development is a single, integrated, end-to-end healthcare hardware platform, Cerner Millennium, based on a unified IT system for all branches of medicine and research.
Industry experts explained that the deal will help Oracle expand its healthcare presence in the US and globally.
This deal may become one of the largest in the IT market in 2021. For Oracle, the takeover of Cerner is extremely important as it will help the company catch up with competitors in this segment of the IT market, which is now led by Amazon and Microsoft. In fact, Oracle is even slightly behind Google and IBM in this market so far.
Almost all the largest IT companies have already gone into medicine. Amazon acquires PillPack, Alphabet invests in Google Health, Apple develops Health App, Microsoft acquires Nuance and develops Microsoft Cloud for healthcare. Even Uber has Uber Health, a transport service for patients and nurses.
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