STAT+: Oracle Health chair says Cerner isn’t competing with Epic
Cerner's new owner aims to win customers with cloud services instead of just electronic health records, Oracle Health’s chair tells STAT.
Cerner may have ceded U.S. business to reigning electronic health records market leader Epic Systems, but new owner Oracle plans to close the gap with cloud services from supply chain management to claims processing, a top Oracle Health executive tells STAT.
Epic and Cerner have long been in a head-to-head race for medical software contracts. The playing field changed in 2022 when Cerner merged with cloud titan Oracle, coinciding with a loss in its large health system customers in the U.S., according to health care technology research firm KLAS.
But Cerner could still come out on top by selling cloud services that link up to competitors’ health records software, Oracle Health chair David Feinberg told STAT.
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