What Oracle’s rumored Cerner acquisition would mean for the EHR market: The reported $30 billion acquisition would put Oracle back on the map in healthcare cloud, and shake up the market dynamics between Epic and Cerner. More on this below.

If Care Studio’s partnership is a hit with Meditech’s hospital clients, it would be a jumpstart to Google partnering with larger EHR vendors like Epic and Oracle’s Cerner. That would help Google’s Care Studio scale more rapidly than with a Meditech partnership alone:. Epic dominates the EHR market with a 31% stake in market share, while Cerner trails behind at 25% market share, per 2021 KLAS data.

High-profile players are rolling out solutions that help standardize and integrate patient data: In October 2020, health tech giant Cerner unveiled its Cerner Unite EHR platform and Cerner Discover intelligence portfolio, which are designed to work in tandem to improve health data quality, simplify data reconciliation, and integrate data-induced insights into physicians’ workflows on any health platform

In August, Google reportedly dismantled its Google Health division, right after its VP David Feinberg jumped ship to become CEO and president of electronic health record giant Cerner. This news followed Google’s June 2021 decision to reshuffle its Fitbit division.

It holds the greatest hospital market share (31%), compared with Cerner (27%) and Meditech (16%), per KLAS. However, Epic’s tech isn’t always trustworthy. Hospitals like University of Michigan Medicine reported Epic’s sepsis algorithm only performed at an overall accuracy rate of 63%, often creating false alarms for physicians.

Epic and Cerner have already mastered this and dominate the EHR market, so it makes more sense for Microsoft to be more of a middleman that’s facilitating interoperability. The bigger picture: Even with new software add-ons, interoperability won’t work if healthcare organizations don’t comply with new interoperability standards.

In August, Insider reported Google dismantled its health division shortly after its VP David Feinberg resigned to accept a position as CEO and president of EHR giant Cerner. It’s planning to integrate health features into its already successful tools, like offering the ability to find a provider through Google Maps.

Although Microsoft already works with healthcare partners like Mayo Clinic, Epic, Cerner, and Change Healthcare, its partnership with Truveta would give it access to major health systems from across the US. Teaming up with a company with lots of backing from more traditional healthcare entities could help Microsoft build up credibility in healthcare.

The news: Google is dismantling its Google Health division, right after its VP David Feinberg jumped ship to become CEO and president of electronic health record giant Cerner, per Insider. How we got here: Google Health was born in 2018 to silo all of Google’s healthcare efforts under one business entity—but it hasn’t progressed much since its inception.

For example, traditional companies like UnitedHealth’s Optum and Cerner have been on an M&A spree to bring different parts of the healthcare supply chain in-house. Amazon is uniquely positioned to disrupt healthcare, though—since its core businesses like Prime and AWS are experiencing escalating profits, it’s able to shoulder the risks that come with vertical expansion.

EHR vendors and health systems alike have tapped Nuance’s voice tech: Its long list of EHR vendor clients includes Cerner, Epic, Allscripts, eClinicalWorks, and Meditech.

As a result, various digital health players have rolled out their own solutions to help ease care coordination between healthcare systems: For example, care coordination vendor CarePort Health enables health systems to track and manage patients within a national provider network—and EHR vendor Cerner unveiled a data integration platform this year to boost data interoperability among its health clients.