Oracle Cerner’s North Kansas City World headquarters and Realizations campus will close on November 30 and are up for sale.
As KMBC News reports, all office staff will now be located at Oracle’s Innovations facility in Southern Kansas City, and no layoffs have been announced as part of the decision to close multiple facilities. Cerner’s office than.
Frank Lenk, director of research services for the Central American Regional Council, told KMBC News.
Oracle acquired Cerner in June.
Last year, Cerner implemented a hybrid workforce policy that allows associates to work from home and use the office for team collaboration, team building, and meetings.
The company also begins selling off properties in Kansas City, Kansas in 2021 to reduce the company’s physical footprint. Locally, there was concern about the initial public investment in the Cerner facilities in Kansas, which is expected to bring thousands of jobs to the area through construction by 2025.
More than $170 million in Sales and Revenue Tax bonds were issued to help build Cerner offices and a new football stadium in 2010, which will eventually be funded by sales taxes, according to a report. reported last year by Flatland, a publication of PBS Kansas City.
As reported by KCUR, the organization, NPR in Kansas City, the former Cerner WHQ and Realizations campus will close on November 30.
As part of one of the largest-ever deals in the electronic health records space, physicians using the Cerner EHR receive voice-enabled AI tools like Voice Digital Assistant to improve their health. improve their work processes.
The combined companies will also create a national database of health records and hope that advanced cloud infrastructure will make interoperability in the medical space a reality.
But healthcare is not an area Oracle is familiar with, and what the Cerner acquisition means for medical IT has been awaited by most industry analysts.
Oracle has laid off employees at several business units over the past few months and is considering $1 billion in cuts since acquiring Cerner with 28,000 employees, according to CRN.com in July.
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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