Breaking Viewpoint - IBM Acquires Truven Health to Bet Big on Big Data and Watson Health
22 Feb 2016
by
Abhishek Singh, Nitish Mittal
Executive Summary
On February 18, 2016, IBM announced plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics, a provider of healthcare data integration and analytics solutions and services, for US$2.6 billion. This was IBM’s fourth major acquisition under its Watson Health unit since IBM Watson was established in 2014. Truven Health offers population health & cost analysis, performance management, payment integrity & compliance, patient care, market analysis, claims management, and research solutions. This breaking viewpoint presents an analysis along the following lines:
Facts about the acquisition
Context behind the acquisition and rationale driving it
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