Morning Headlines 12/22/21
Oracle’s Cerner Purchase Prompts a Trio of Debt-Downgrade Warnings
Several investment firms and bond ratings organizations downgrade Oracle’s shares and debt due to the cash requirements and possible lack of strategic value in acquiring Cerner for $28 billion in cash.
Oracle’s $30 billion Cerner deal is about more than health care records. It’s about AI.
A privacy advocate worries how Oracle, which runs the world’s largest third-party data marketplace, will use Cerner’s EHR data after the acquisition.
Patient financial solutions vendor AccessOne acquires patient payments platform vendor CueSquared.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.