Oracle chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison vowed to prioritize the cloud giant’s health care business on Thursday, painting a vivid picture of health care’s future: Seamless access to medical records, artificial intelligence models to diagnose disease, and detailed tracking to streamline care delivery.
Days after Oracle closed its roughly $28 billion deal to acquire health record software company Cerner, Ellison described plans for a national electronic health record system that would pull from thousands of separate hospitals.