Oracle EHR database plan prompts skepticism from health IT experts

Oracle’s vision of creating a national database of patient medical records, while bold, overlooks long-standing industry challenges, health technology experts said.

Larry Ellison, Oracle’s co-founder, chief technology officer and board chair, last week shared an ambitious plan to build a database that contains data from electronic health records systems at hospitals across the U.S. Doctors would be able to access medical data with patients’…