Larry Ellison, Oracle‘s founder and CTO, has outlined a grand vision for transforming healthcare access, regardless of location. At Oracle Cloud World 2022, Ellison discussed a number of initiatives his company is launching to help people worldwide, Techradar reports.
“We’re going to bankrupt western civilization unless we can find a way to make healthcare cheaper,” Ellison said in his keynote speech at the event, “we’ve got to do a better job.”
As a result of the pandemic, Ellison and many others changed how they view healthcare, especially in the US where finding the information patients and providers need can be challenging.
“Your health records are scattered across different databases, everyone you’ve visited in your entire life,” he said, noting that providers, not patients, are being put at the center of the system – something he described as, “a fundamental problem.”
“Why is there a global financial database that knows your entire credit history but not a global healthcare one?” he noted. “If you have an accident, the hospital will know your financial records but not if you’re allergic to penicillin.”
“We need to automate the entire global healthcare ecosystem,” he continued. “Some of these data can be shared among nations to create a worldwide global public health system.”