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69 CIO / HEALTH IT Amazon has excelled with member- ship-based customers and One Medical has a very similar business model, which may align well with Amazon Prime. One Medical's membership-based primary care service offers its customers 24/7 virtu- al care access – Amazon will need to decide if they are to be their own health insurance product, or if they will forego it and offer its value-based subscription plan, providing concierge care that is more affordable, and perhaps bundled with their existing Amazon Prime membership. Saad Chaudhry. CIO of Luminis Health (Annapolis, Md.). is acquisition means that Amazon is realizing that the future is in geographically-dispersed and on-demand care, backed by a digitally-enabled ambula- tory network. And to get the most out of it in the future, you will want to extend your clinicians to the top of their license (off-load as much operational/admin work as possible via tech), while being able to provide care virtually, at home or in the clinic. e country will need something akin to this in about seven years' time especially, because 20 percent of the U.S. population will be above retirement age by 2030. And we (the healthcare industry) will need to start build- ing the care provision infrastructure of the future, today, if we are to effectively deal with the overwhelming demand for geriatric care headed for us. Randy Davis. Senior Vice President and CIO of CGH Medical Center (Sterling, Ill.). is acquisition means little. Amazon continues to live under the illusion they un- derstand healthcare when they do not. ere is no magic wand for them to waive to make One Medical profitable. I want someone like One Medical to find broad success, it would in the end make us all more efficient and goodness knows hos- pitals in America today need a health shot of cost-reduction. But, One Medical won't do it. So, it makes for interesting news, but It will mean nothing. In total, healthcare spending in the U.S. is $4.1 trillion, an acquisition of $3.9 billion is irrelevant. is falls into the category of pol- icy wonks and "futurists" wanting it to mean more than it does. n Epic + Oracle Cerner: 10 updates in the last 60 days By Laura Dyrda Epic and Oracle Cerner have been busy. Both companies entered multiple partnerships and expanded their reach in the last two months, and they continue to seek opportunities to grow. Here are five moves both companies have made recently. Epic 1. Epic joined the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agree- ment, which aims to improve health data interoperability. The company previously partnered with ONC, the Sequoia Project and others in the healthcare community to build prin- ciples and procedures within the agreement, and now the 2,000-plus hospitals and more than 45,000 clin- ics with Epic's EHR can join the frame- work. 2. Epic also partnered with genetic testing and precision medicine com- pany Myriad Genetics in late June to integrate Myriad's tests and review results directly within Epic's plat- forms. Patients have access to their test results within the Epic portal as well, and the integration is expected to go live later this year. 3. Through a partnership with Caris Life Sciences, a molecular science company, Epic is adding molecular profile services to its network. Caris will integrate its test-ordering and re- sults into Epic to help streamline clin- ical workflows. 4. Jared Anderson, MD, an emergen- cy physician practicing at Lifespan hospitals in Providence, R.I., joined Epic's national advisory board. Dr. Anderson was elected to Epic's emergency medicine board, which includes 12 physicians from across the U.S. who advise the EHR giant on new developments and upgrades. 5. Jackson, Miss.-based St. Domi- nic Hospital is installing Epic's EHR at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb. The two health systems will share the same EHR to improve care coordination and the revenue cycle process. Oracle Cerner 1. Oracle completed its $28.4 billion acquisition of Cerner in early June, and Larry Ellison, chief technology of- ficer of Oracle, reported plans to cre- ate a nationwide healthcare database shortly thereafter. 2. Cerner inked a partnership with Tiger Institute for Health Innovation, which provides the technology for University of Missouri Health Care's EHR system, and Foundation Medi- cine, which focuses on developing and selling genomic profiling assays. The partners aim to launch a fully automated genetic testing interface within the Oracle Cerner EHR. 3. Oracle Cerner reported it expand- ed relationships with health systems globally, including Champion Hospi- tal in Kuwait, Austin Hospital in Aus- tralia, Emirates Health Services in the United Arab Emirates and Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar. Oracle Cerner now has 2,389 inpatient hos- pitals globally, the most of any EHR vendor. 4. Birmingham, Ala.-based Encom- pass Health launched its 150th post- acute inpatient rehabilitation hospital linked to the Oracle Cerner EHR. En- compass said it plans to add six to 10 hospitals to its system each year and include the Oracle Cerner EHR from day one. 5. David Feinberg, MD, CEO of Cern- er, will become chair of the newly created Oracle Health global industry unit while Travis Dalton is being pro- moted to general manager and will be tasked with running Oracle Health, according to the Kansas City Business Journal. He previously served as chief client and services officer at Cerner. n