Oracle’s Cerner Acquisition Will Drive Smarter Care Decisions

Oracle is gearing up to execute the largest deal in its history by agreeing to purchase Cerner, a leading electronic health record (EHR) vendor, for $28.3 billion. The Cerner acquisition is slated to be an all-cash deal of $95 per share and is expected to be completed early next year.

Acquisition Background

Cerner is a healthcare technology firm that streamlines and facilitates access to sensitive health information for modern clinical teams. The Cerner system effectively gathers crucial health data across the patient journey and enables clinicians to make smarter, data-backed care decisions. Following the acquisition, Cerner will become a business unit of Oracle.

“Congratulations to Cerner and its employees! Their success story is inspirational and a testament to their commitment to innovation and staying ahead of the curve. The Cerner acquisition indicates that major technology firms are now viewing healthcare as a major growth opportunity for their business.”

– Judit Sharon, CEO | OnPage

The acquisition has the potential to yield significant synergies. It will leverage the companies’ core competencies to provide clinicians with enhanced, high-quality information to make better care decisions and improve patient outcomes. Oracle’s Cerner acquisition further empowers the firm to accelerate its efforts in modernizing the EHR world and offering efficient, better-connected care for patients.

Speaking on the news, Oracle Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Larry Ellison said, “With [the Cerner] acquisition, Oracle’s corporate mission expands to assume the responsibility to provide our overworked medical professionals with a new generation of easier-to-use digital tools that enable access to information.” 

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Key Takeaways

The Cerner acquisition comes during a growing trend of technology firms proactively exploring acquisition opportunities to expand their customer base in healthcare and build additional pillars of growth. Though healthcare has been slow to adopt the cloud, large tech firms are bullish about the opportunities that exist in this sector and are seeking to invest heavily in areas that demand greater efficiency and improved workflows.

It will be interesting to see how the Cerner-Oracle deal pans out for the industry and how the two companies will evolve following the acquisition. It is inevitable that more transformational mergers will materialize in the future and revolutionize how technology and patient care coexist in the modern landscape.

Ritika Bramhe

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