Oracle’s $28.3 billion acquisition of electronic medical records company Cerner signals enterprise tech’s interest in expanding into health care. This Wall Street Journal article explains how the deal may also be a step toward solving a longtime problem in the U.S. health care system: data sharing. Electronic medical records being stored on various platforms makes them difficult to access for both providers and patients. Oracle plans to give health care providers digital tools that can give them better access to records stored in the cloud. However, the tools will also need to ensure different systems containing records can communicate with each other. Despite challenges, Tom Miller, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said, “It’s the big enterprise tech operators who know how to do this on a scale way beyond what any particular hospitals or even a health record system can handle.”