The Revolving Door as Architecture
Oracle acquired Cerner for twenty-eight billion dollars. Cerner held clinical records from fourteen thousand medical facilities. Oracle then became a Qualified Health Information Network — meaning it could see all medical data in transit. It won the CMS contract — the claims, eligibility, and fraud detection systems for a hundred and fifty million Americans. And it launched a commercial AI platform selling deidentified patient records. The person who led Oracle’s bid for the CMS contract was Seema Verma. Her previous job was running CMS. ...
