San Francisco: Cloud main Oracle reportedly laid off greater than 3,000 workers on the digital healthcare information agency Cerner which it acquired for $28.4 billion.

According to an Insider report, citing present and former workers, Oracle paused raises and promotions and “laid off thousands of employees in the unit” as lately as this month after the acquisition closed in June final yr.

The Cerner acquisition had introduced in about 28,000 workers.

According to the Insider report that got here out on Wednesday, Oracle has “not issued raises or granted promotions, and, earlier this year, announced that workers shouldn’t expect any through 2023”.

Layoffs “affected workers across teams, including marketing, engineering, accounting, legal, and product,” mentioned the report, citing a former worker.

Oracle didn’t touch upon the report.

The Cloud main is creating a nationwide well being information database.

According to Oracle’s Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison, the affected person knowledge could be nameless till people give consent to share their info.

Ellison has assured that Oracle’s database will anonymise all affected person knowledge.

Cerner is a number one supplier of digital info programs used inside hospitals and well being programs to allow medical professionals to ship higher healthcare to particular person sufferers and communities.

Oracle’s new well being information database will even contain the affected person engagement system the corporate has been creating all through the pandemic.

The Cloud main can be engaged on the affected person engagement system’s capacity to gather info from wearables and residential diagnostic gadgets.