HIMSS started with the eye popping news that IBM acquired two analytics companies in one day. Phytel, a leading Population Health Management company and Explorys, a predictive software company will be incorporated into IBM Watson. Rumors are that IBM paid an aggregate of $750MM for both. IBM is now clearly making a big push into healthcare IT. As part of the acquisition announcement, IBM also created a dedicated business unit – IBM Watson Health (to be headquartered in Boston, MA) – featuring a HIPAA-enabled, open platform Watson Health Cloud. Will other big, diversified technology companies make moves to respond? Analytics clearly…
Apr 20, 2015
What’s Hot in Healthcare Tech – HIMSS 2015
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