Oracle, which just completed the $28.4 billion acquisition of Cerner, an electronic health records business, is working on a national health records database.
According to medcitynews.com, Oracle’s board chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison stated that patient data will remain anonymous until patients express their approval to disclose their information.
During Oracle’s ‘The Future of Healthcare’ webcast, Ellison told the media, “We’re building a system where all American citizens’ health records exist not only at the hospital level but also in a unified national health records database.”
Oracle’s database, according to Ellison, will anonymize all patient data.
The patient engagement system that Oracle has been developing throughout the epidemic will be included in Oracle’s new health records database, according to a report released late Friday.
Oracle is also working on improving the capabilities of the patient engagement system to collect data from wearables and home diagnostic devices.
According to Ellison, introducing wearables into clinical research would allow more people to engage in trials, which will progress clinical research even further.
“You may be in a remote hospital and share this information with your doctors and the research trial’s organizers. As a result, clinical trials now have a considerably more diversified population “‘He said,’ he was reported as saying.
Oracle stated in December of last year that it will buy Cerner in an all-cash tender offer for $95.00 per share, or $28.3 billion in equity value.
Cerner is a prominent developer of digital information solutions that help medical professionals provide better care to individual patients and communities in hospitals and health systems.
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