Cerner

“By the way, earlier when I said 24 different companies merged together to create Cerner, I forgot that this chart that I'm looking at predates when Cerner then bought Siemens. So then there's another 12 companies that had merged together to become Siemens that…”

“This deal in 2015 is, up until this moment in time, the biggest healthcare IT contract of all time. It ends up being a 4.3 billion dollar deal, so even bigger than the Kaiser deal. It remains the biggest until two years later, when the VA contract does go out.…”

“December, 2021, as we've been alluding to, Cerner gets bought by Oracle for twenty eight billion dollars.”

“So the DOD system, the active duty system, only just fully went live late last year in twenty-twenty-four. This contract got bid out in twenty-fifteen. So that is a nine-year implementation process.”

“The VA system was bid out in 2017. The latest announcement from the VA about this project is that it will be live at all VA sites by, this is a direct quote, as early as 20 31.”

“You know, maybe it's too early to tell, but I think this is probably one of Oracle's worst acquisitions of all time.”