Cloud Computing

Francisco Partners has completed its purchase of Watson Health's data analytics tools and is spinning them off into an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based business.

Health IT leaders and federal officials have spent years attempting to solve the challenges Larry Ellison says his company can fix. Many experts are skeptical. But if Oracle can make it happen, it would be a major achievement for healthcare.

That should be a "wake-up call to C-level executives," says an exec from Saviynt, which sponsored the survey, since it "fuels the risk of rising identity and access-related attacks and their financial consequences."

With the Cerner acquisition now complete, Oracle's co-founder and CTO says his company will build a national EHR database to address interoperability challenges for patients, providers and public health agencies.

Oracle Industries EVP Mike Sicilia says the newly combined companies will be focused on interoperability, innovation and user-centered design, transforming EHRs from "systems of record into systems of intelligence."

But healthcare organizations have gotten better at responding to this new normal, the new survey indicates, with hospitals now able to restore more encrypted data after attacks.

"We expect Cerner to be a huge growth engine for years to come," said Oracle CEO Safra Catz of the $28.3 billion deal.

Broadcom seeks to boost its strategy to construct a top infrastructure technology company. Broadcom Software Group will rebrand and operate as VMware.

The healthcare cybersecurity company has entered into a definitive agreement to be bought in an all-cash deal. After the merger, it will be taken private as a subsidiary of Clearwater.

The prominent Pennsylvania health system is going all in with Amazon Web Services in a move it sees as helping improve access to and quality of care.